Sometimes I take traditional songs and modify them or just outright write new versions set in my Republic of Cascadia universe, where Cascadia gained independence in 1973, and a bunch of other things are different too. Despite the way things fell apart in that time in that world, it’s not dystopian – people picked things up and put them back together in new ways, like mostly, people do.<\/p>\n
The traditional “High Barbaree” is about an encounter with a pirate ship where the pirates lose, and if you know us, you know that’s not how we roll. I was stuck on this song for a long time, despite having come up with a great zouk riff for it – until a couple of weeks ago, when I finally realised that in this<\/em> version, High Barbaree isn’t the place<\/em>, High Barbaree is the ship<\/em>. And then the rest just came tumbling out.<\/p>\n I’ll be playing this at nwcMUSIC, if I can wedge in time between running all the things. XD<\/p>\n High Barbaree Look ahead, look astern, look the weather in the lee Oh are we a pirate, or man o’ war? Runnin’ gun, runnin’ rum, runnin’ iron and gold Oh priviteering’s rough, not much pay to be had Sometimes I take traditional songs and modify them or just outright write new versions set in my Republic of Cascadia universe, where Cascadia gained independence in 1973, and a bunch of other things are different too. Despite the way things fell apart in that time in that world, it’s not dystopian – people picked things [&hellip<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-songs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1811\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n2012 Crime and the Forces of Evil
\nNeighbourhood of E<\/p>\n
\nBlow high, blow low, and so sail we
\nThere’s a lofty ship about us; we sail fast and free
\nSailin’ down along the coast on High Barbaree<\/p>\n
\nBlow high, blow low, and so sail we
\nIt depends on who you’re askin’; we’ve been both before
\nSailin’ down along the coast on High Barbaree
\nOh if you are Alaskan, then we bring you your breads
\nBlow high, blow low, and so sail we
\nBut the Californians hate us, and they’re after our heads
\nSingin’ down along the coast on High Barbaree<\/p>\n
\nBlow high, blow low, and so sail we
\nAnd sometimes runnin’ things we don’t wanna be told
\nSailing down along the coast on High Barbaree
\nThe Douglas Fir we’re flyin’; this sea it is ours
\nBlow high, blow low, and so sail we
\nAnd should you try to stop us we’ll put flame to your stars
\nSingin’ down along the coast on High Barbaree<\/p>\n
\nBlow high, blow low, and so sail we
\nThe voyage is never ending, and the food’s pretty bad
\nSailing down along the coast on high barbaree
\nBut be a Yankee or a Dixie? Oh I’d rather be dead
\nBlow high, blow low, and so sail we
\nWe’re betting all we’ve got that something better’s ahead
\nSingin’ down along the coast on High Barbaree
\nSailing down along the coast on High Barbaree<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"