Oh I’ll tell you a tale of a pirate queen
A she-wolf who reigned the Caribbean Sea
With a pistol-a-ready and a cutlass keen
The villainous, infamous Anne Bonny

Villainous, infamous Anne Bonny
Villainous, infamous Anne Bonny
Villainous, infamous Anne Bonny
Villainous, infamous Anne Bonny

Born in Ireland scandalously
Bastard daughter
To a prosperous lawyer
Shunned suitor and society
For the love of a pirate boy

So Calico Jack and our Anne Bonny
Passione lovers
Villainous plunderers
Sailed off for a life of piracy
On his ship, The Revenge, Ahoy

Oh I’ll tell you a tale of a pirate queen
A she-wolf who reigned the Caribbean sea
With a pistol-a-ready and a cutlass keen
The villainous, infamous Anne Bonny

Villainous, infamous Anne Bonny
Villainous, infamous Anne Bonny
Villainous, infamous Anne Bonny
Villainous, infamous Anne Bonny

But this was the 18th century
Where men make knives
And women make wives
So Anne disguised herself to be
A deadly pirate boy

Oh she plundered and murdered and raised the sea
With canons roaring
Pistols warring
She ravaged galleons mercilessly
Oh Anne Bonny

Then a fellow pirate caught a glance
Her naked chest
A woman’s breast
So she drew her cutlass and took a stand
To be Anne the Pirate Queen

Oh I’ll tell you a tale of a pirate queen
A she-wolf who reigned the Caribbean Sea
With a pistol-a-ready and a cutlass keen
The villainous, infamous Anne Bonny

Villainous, infamous Anne Bonny
Villainous, infamous Anne Bonny
Villainous, infamous Anne Bonny
Villainous, infamous Anne Bonny

And that’s when Anne met Mary Read
A pirate siren
Female tyrant
Together they terrorized the sea
A buccaneering team

Oh they plundered and murdered and raided the sea
With cannons roaring
Pistols warring
They ravaged galleons mercilessly
Anne and Mary Read

On October 1720
Gold they struck
So the boys got drunk
An easy opportunity
For a ship of British marines

Anne and Mary fought alone
With cutlass flying
Pistols firing
They fought hard for their own throne
But lost their victory

And so the crew were captured
Thrown in prison
Death by hanging
But Anne Bonny was pardoned
For her belly held a child

So she paid her Jack a visit
And this she said
With no tear shed

“if you had fought like a man
you wouldn’t be about to die like a dog”

And she turned on her heel
Walked out of the door
And vanished
Into legend

Oh I’ll tell you a tale of a pirate queen
A she-wolf who reigned the Caribbean sea
With a pistol-a-ready and a cutlass keen
The villainous, infamous Anne Bonny

32 men on a Great Lake boat
Quit the pier at Thunder Bay
28,000 tons of coal
On a cold November day
800 feet and 10 more along
80 feet across
The steel mills of Detroit
Our destination through the frost

At 2 AM on the 2nd
Waves were runnin’ up to 40 feet
Winds were blowing up to 60 miles
Our engines crankin’ heat
At 3:13 we took a wave
The wheelhouse left behind
The radar slipped beneath the waves
And we were runnin’ blind

[Bridge]
Hear me call across the waves
If I don’t come home tonight
I will make it home some day

[Chorus]
(Steel boats, iron men)
32 down on the Robert MacKenzie
(Steel boats, iron men)
32 down on the Robert MacKenzie
(Steel boats, iron men)
32 down on the Robert MacKenzie
Our captain name of Phillips
Seekin’ shelter from the storm
Turned us South of Bete Grise Bay
By way of Keweenaw Point
But the winds were pushin’ at such a rate
We ended up driftin’ North
A wave broke over a knife of rock
Six Fathom Shoal

MacKenzie she was cut in half
The stern she rammed the bow
The men were caught in metal chunks
The flames burned out of hell
Stern kept runnin’ all the lights ablaze
Not one man would be found
Captain’s last transmission read
32 men down

[Bridge]
Hear me call across the waves
If I don’t come home tonight
I will make it home someday

[Chorus]
(Steel boats, iron men)
32 down on the Robert MacKenzie
(Steel boats, iron men)
32 down on the Robert MacKenzie
(Steel boats, iron men)
32 down on the Robert MacKenzie
Down Down Down Down Down Down Down Down

Hear me call across the waves
If I don’t come home tonight
I will make it home someday