Intro:
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And so it began
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The story how Elzevir would look after John as his own son
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And the smugglers betrayed on Moonfleet Bay
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By Maskew looking now at Elzevir's gun
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Then a shot rang out in the morning light
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Maskew fell a hole between his eyes
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But it was his own men who brought him down
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And they also got poor John, oh, they also shot poor John
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Oooh, it's a dangerous world boys
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Oooh, with the smuggling crew
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Oooh, it's a dangerous life boys
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When you're running from the Revenue
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When you're running from the Revenue
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And so to escape it came now for Elzevir to pick up the boy
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And carry him away
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For he could not walk with a bullet in the leg
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And they made for the safety of the Purbeck cave
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T'was there that John would read one night
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The words in the locket by candlelight
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For the Bible verses held the key to Blackbeard's hidden treasure
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At the bottom of a Castle well
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Oooh, it's a dangerous world boys
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Oooh, in a smuggler's life
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Oooh, in the Days of our age boys
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That's where the secret of the treasure lies
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That's where the secret of the treasure lies
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That's where the secret of the treasure lies
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That's where the secret of the treasure lies
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Oh, we're going to be rich boys
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The treasure we will find
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Blackbeard's bones are dancing here tonight
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Yes, we're going to be rich boys, the treasure we will find
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At fourscore feet deep, well, North is where it lies