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Bill Boozy was a pirate bold

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Bill Boozy was a pirate bold
by Robert E. Howard

First published in The Collected Letters of Robert E. Howard, vol. 1 (2007), where it appears in a letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, July 30, 1923.

1893959Bill Boozy was a pirate boldRobert E. Howard

Bill Boozy was a pirate bold,
He never washed his neck,
He chawed a wad of chewing-gum,
And spat upon the deck.

Sez’e’, “No more we’ll stuff ourselves,
With quarts and quarts of rum,
Lashed to the mast,
The color’s fast,
Yo ho, and a pack of gum!”


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