Barrett's Privateers but you're a broken man on a Halifax pier

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  • @dragonlord595
    @dragonlord595 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3180

    tfw your legs are made out of the same thing as the pier

    • @riograndedosulball248
      @riograndedosulball248 3 ปีที่แล้ว +164

      the floor is made of leg

    • @directrulefromgamerchair3947
      @directrulefromgamerchair3947 3 ปีที่แล้ว +58

      Hmm yes this pier is made of leg

    • @NickThorbjørnsen2207
      @NickThorbjørnsen2207 3 ปีที่แล้ว +54

      Tfw someone asks why the two planks from the end have been stolen

    • @thisaccountisntreal107
      @thisaccountisntreal107 3 ปีที่แล้ว +29

      Imagine walking down the pier and everyone hears you coming from the wood knocking together
      Knock knock knock knock

    • @rickcoona
      @rickcoona 3 ปีที่แล้ว +25

      Lt. Dan, you got no legs!

  • @MaritimeHorrors
    @MaritimeHorrors 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1918

    Better than being on a Halifax pier in 1917 on December 6th.

    • @esvall0568
      @esvall0568 3 ปีที่แล้ว +169

      That's the day finland gained independence Suomi Finland perkele!

    • @MaritimeHorrors
      @MaritimeHorrors 3 ปีที่แล้ว +132

      @@esvall0568 Huh, that's pretty coincidental. So good and bad happened that day.

    • @tayloranderson1059
      @tayloranderson1059 3 ปีที่แล้ว +39

      I'd like to thank Pandora's algorithm for introducing me to this piece of history already

    • @grong42069
      @grong42069 3 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      @@esvall0568 based fin

    • @tomtexas4897
      @tomtexas4897 3 ปีที่แล้ว +29

      hehe, boat go booooooooooooom

  • @vicarious8989
    @vicarious8989 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1023

    We've all been a broken man on a Halifax pier at one time or another

    • @neilwilson5785
      @neilwilson5785 3 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      Now we just end up with an office job, with both legs intact. Not sure how many tears are shed..

    • @aslaamo1118
      @aslaamo1118 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      @@neilwilson5785 Aye...Tis unfortunate...So much of our lives wasted...

    • @avelociraptorfromjurassicp8695
      @avelociraptorfromjurassicp8695 3 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      If reincarnation is real then this be truer than it actually is

    • @7183d
      @7183d 3 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      I’ve literally been one since I live there

    • @joeblow9657
      @joeblow9657 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      I think I'll be a broke man for the rest of my life. I'm 26

  • @chapliecharlin
    @chapliecharlin 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1354

    can we just get a moment of silence for Barrett?
    man was smashed like a bowl of eggs.

    • @Lepper36
      @Lepper36 3 ปีที่แล้ว +92

      Least he's got nothing to worry about now. The main trunk carried off both the singer's legs.

    • @chapliecharlin
      @chapliecharlin 3 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      @@Lepper36 excellent point.

    • @neilwilson5785
      @neilwilson5785 3 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      Last time I was smashed that much it took three days to sleep off.

    • @swiftarrow1174
      @swiftarrow1174 3 ปีที่แล้ว +50

      @@Lepper36 fun fact about the main truck: The "truck" is referring to rigging at the top of a mast, which means the mast fell over from the first cannonball (likely being what smashed Barrett). the funny thing is, on a stoop (the type of ship the antelope was) there is only one mast. As such, there is no "main" truck, because there is only one mast to have the rigging on.

    • @dylancavill1921
      @dylancavill1921 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @Canadian Swift Water Swimming I only speak British matlow and we would call the "truck" the mast and the raised section the forecastle (pronounced folks'hall)

  • @Dover78
    @Dover78 3 ปีที่แล้ว +757

    I'd just like to point out that the US never signed the 1856 Paris Declaration that abolished privateering and that issuing letters of marque is still technically legal under the Constitution. So, while you may never get to cruise the seas for American gold, the possibility still exists that you could sail the seas for Chinese gold with an American letter of marque.

    • @nillynush4899
      @nillynush4899 3 ปีที่แล้ว +97

      Based, the one smart economic move America would make in a hundred years. Confiscating Chinese Communist Gold and SILVER. Actual Money, God's money. 5,000 year vetted money. Not 100-year Fiat enslavement.

    • @leethejuggler1486
      @leethejuggler1486 3 ปีที่แล้ว +94

      me: *already loading my rifle and lowering the sails* Interesting

    • @SlimeJime
      @SlimeJime 3 ปีที่แล้ว +26

      fire no guns and shed no tears 4 sure fellas

    • @CB-zq1ky
      @CB-zq1ky 3 ปีที่แล้ว +36

      Alright boys. Let’s start a crew.

    • @mr.factoid105
      @mr.factoid105 3 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      Do chinses fishing fleets count

  • @Whatsinmypocket
    @Whatsinmypocket 3 ปีที่แล้ว +410

    >tfw you'll never cruise the seas for American gold.

    • @jackcrassus168
      @jackcrassus168 3 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      You don’t have to make me cry

    • @LancashireAndYorkshire
      @LancashireAndYorkshire 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      >tfw you'll probably never sail aboard a colonial ship

    • @vulpesinculta3238
      @vulpesinculta3238 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      That's good, given what happened to this poor sod.

    • @buckplug2423
      @buckplug2423 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      >you'll never cross the Ukrainian Sea and conquer Europe in the name of Sky Father

    • @artsyrache
      @artsyrache 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Vulpes Inculta shut up furry!

  • @bennbastard5082
    @bennbastard5082 3 ปีที่แล้ว +680

    Stan Rogers was one of the greatest talents the world has ever known

    • @yuuka4964
      @yuuka4964 3 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      Such a shame he died so tragically.

    • @joeymoffett00
      @joeymoffett00 3 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      Yes, very unknown but I'm so happy that his music is being appreciated 40 years later

    • @RockNRollHorrorshow
      @RockNRollHorrorshow 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @Al Tee That story was unfortunately proven false, but it's the story I choose to believe over the real one of the plane just instantly blowing up.

    • @shipmates.journal
      @shipmates.journal 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I call him the godfather of shanties

    • @Olstretch
      @Olstretch 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      This is my favorite quote of all time

  • @Bornst3ll3r
    @Bornst3ll3r 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1062

    Born too late to cruise the seas for American gold
    Born too early to cruise the stars for solar ore
    Born just in time to be a broken man on the Halifax pier

    • @raslipmugfrud2040
      @raslipmugfrud2040 3 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      feels bad man

    • @rickcoona
      @rickcoona 3 ปีที่แล้ว +30

      Be glad, those twenty four pounders can really ruin your day...
      Who in their right minds takes a sloop with four or six four pound cannons up against a merchant vessel with Twenty-four pound cannons! Not to mention that the four pounder are *Cracked!* I am guessing the lust for gold was there ultimate undoing.
      At least one man lived to tell the tale.

    • @haken6684
      @haken6684 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      underrated comment

    • @riograndedosulball248
      @riograndedosulball248 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@rickcoona not to mention it only took ONE ball to sink the Antelope, might as well be that the merchant had just one cannon and made it to work

    • @JosephANagyJr
      @JosephANagyJr 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Can we get in F in chat? Damn dude, I feel ya and taxation is theft.

  • @secretbaguette
    @secretbaguette 3 ปีที่แล้ว +389

    Goddamn them all!
    I was told we'd roam the seas for american gold, we'd fire no guns, shed no tears, now I'm a broken man on a Halifax peir the last of Barret's privateers.

  • @OConnelsSideOfDaRiver
    @OConnelsSideOfDaRiver 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1490

    I remember feeling like a broken man on my last day of college: I walked out of a test I knew I would only barely pass, and had submitted the worst paper of my academic carrier that morning. I wasn't good enough to go to grad school, and I suspected that I had seen how the public education system grinds down school teachers, so I basically had no direction in my life. I found a bench on the quad and as a 1000 yard stare quickly developed, all I could do was wonder what happened to that bright, happy, kid who was always gushed over by all his teachers. They always said he had such a promising future...

    • @samurguy9906
      @samurguy9906 3 ปีที่แล้ว +169

      Have things gotten better for you since?

    • @lejammiedodgere
      @lejammiedodgere  3 ปีที่แล้ว +521

      That bright hopeful kid is still in you my guy, it's just a matter of making him proud. A calm sea never made a skilled sailor; you'll only become a stronger man if you forge onward.

    • @thefroglord257
      @thefroglord257 3 ปีที่แล้ว +26

      I hope things have gotten better for you, dude.

    • @thedumbdog1964
      @thedumbdog1964 3 ปีที่แล้ว +34

      We’ve all been there. You shatter but it only makes cracks, leaves scars. The pieces stay together.

    • @SolidSnnake
      @SolidSnnake 3 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      Holdfast and forge on me bucko

  • @carterthiessen2664
    @carterthiessen2664 3 ปีที่แล้ว +217

    Stans voice breaks up when he sings louder much like an electric guitar distorts when pushed hard through an amp. It makes the story that much more believable, as though he himself harbors the anger at the lies he was told when Barret recruited him. Amazing artist.
    This landlocked Manitoban will raise a pint of Alexander Keith's and sing along with my maritime brothers!

  • @pedromonteirob.7048
    @pedromonteirob.7048 3 ปีที่แล้ว +167

    The 0 dislikes are from the people who shed tears

    • @neilwilson5785
      @neilwilson5785 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      It is 3 now. One more will match the cracked 4-pounders - let's do it Reddit!

    • @icedragon2030
      @icedragon2030 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      13

    • @CoolKid-qk7tl
      @CoolKid-qk7tl 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      The 15 dislikes are from people who fired guns

  • @grimgrahamch.4157
    @grimgrahamch.4157 3 ปีที่แล้ว +212

    On the bright side, Halifax is a nice city. Especially in the summer.

    • @xxjab105xx
      @xxjab105xx 3 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      Until 1917, then the mont blanc is struck by the imo and kaboom

    • @andrewryan4417
      @andrewryan4417 3 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      I wouldn't recommend it when there's Frenchies by the shores.
      Something doesn't feel right when they're around.

    • @savageantelope3306
      @savageantelope3306 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Ye hear it’s kinda boring tho

    • @robertgibson9651
      @robertgibson9651 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      If this was a video game that'd be the line of dialogue from the npc who's lying on the dock next to you with two hooks, pegs, and eyepatches

    • @prestono7557
      @prestono7557 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@savageantelope3306 Most of the east coast is boring. I mean barely anyone lives there and while beautiful, and there is pretty cool sailor stories. It's mostly Cod.

  • @therealskull4786
    @therealskull4786 2 ปีที่แล้ว +35

    "And the cook in the scuppers with the staggers and jags"
    *googles every word in that sentence*

    • @Southern_Crusader
      @Southern_Crusader ปีที่แล้ว

      Translation please?

    • @therealskull4786
      @therealskull4786 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      The "staggers and jags" are from alcohol poisoning, and the scuppers are the holes in the walls of the top deck of the ship to drain water.

  • @notbadsince97
    @notbadsince97 3 ปีที่แล้ว +55

    Oh, the year was 1778, HOW I WISH I WAS IN SHERBROOKE NOW!
    A letter of marque come from the king,
    To the scummiest vessel I'd ever seen,
    God damn them all!
    I was told we'd cruise the seas for American gold
    We'd fire no guns-shed no tears
    Now I'm a broken man on a Halifax pier
    The last of Barrett's Privateers.
    Oh, Elcid Barrett cried the town, HOW I WISH I WAS IN SHERBROOKE NOW!
    For twenty brave men all fishermen who
    Would make for him the Antelope's crew
    God damn them all!
    I was told we'd cruise the seas for American gold
    We'd fire no guns-shed no tears
    Now I'm a broken man on a Halifax pier
    The last of Barrett's Privateers.
    The Antelope sloop was a sickening sight, HOW I WISH I WAS IN SHERBROOKE NOW!
    She'd a list to the port and and her sails in rags
    And the cook in scuppers with the staggers and the jags
    God damn them all!
    I was told we'd cruise the seas for American gold
    We'd fire no guns-shed no tears
    Now I'm a broken man on a Halifax pier
    The last of Barrett's Privateers.
    On the King's birthday we put to sea, HOW I WISH I WAS IN SHERBROOKE NOW!
    We were 91 days to Montego Bay
    Pumping like madmen all the way
    God damn them all!
    I was told we'd cruise the seas for American gold
    We'd fire no guns-shed no tears
    Now I'm a broken man on a Halifax pier
    The last of Barrett's Privateers.
    On the 96th day we sailed again, HOW I WISH I WAS IN SHERBROOKE NOW!
    When a bloody great Yankee hove in sight
    With our cracked four pounders we made to fight
    God damn them all!
    I was told we'd cruise the seas for American gold
    We'd fire no guns-shed no tears
    Now I'm a broken man on a Halifax pier
    The last of Barrett's Privateers.
    The Yankee lay low down with gold, HOW I WISH I WAS IN SHERBROOKE NOW!
    She was broad and fat and loose in the stays
    But to catch her took the Antelope two whole days
    God damn them all!
    I was told we'd cruise the seas for American gold
    We'd fire no guns-shed no tears
    Now I'm a broken man on a Halifax pier
    The last of Barrett's Privateers.
    Then at length we stood two cables away, HOW I WISH I WAS IN SHERBROOKE NOW!
    Our cracked four pounders made an awful din
    But with one fat ball the Yank stove us in
    God damn them all!
    I was told we'd cruise the seas for American gold
    We'd fire no guns-shed no tears
    Now I'm a broken man on a Halifax pier
    The last of Barrett's Privateers.
    The Antelope shook and pitched on her side, HOW I WISH I WAS IN SHERBROOKE NOW!
    Barrett was smashed like a bowl of eggs
    And the Main trunk carried off both me legs
    God damn them all!
    I was told we'd cruise the seas for American gold
    We'd fire no guns-shed no tears
    Now I'm a broken man on a Halifax pier
    The last of Barrett's Privateers.
    So here I lay in my 23rd year, HOW I WISH I WAS IN SHERBROOKE NOW!
    It's been 6 years since we sailed away
    And I just made Halifax yesterday
    God damn them all!
    I was told we'd cruise the seas for American gold
    We'd fire no guns-shed no tears
    Now I'm a broken man on a Halifax pier
    The last of Barrett's Privateers

  • @pisani_productions9339
    @pisani_productions9339 3 ปีที่แล้ว +73

    Just found out the girl I've been talking to for 2 months is interested in another guy, I'm now feeling like a broken man wishing he was on a Halifax pier

    • @5.7moy
      @5.7moy 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Rip bruv, been there. It gets better eventually.

    • @leethejuggler1486
      @leethejuggler1486 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Girls are temporary. Brotherhood is forever.

    • @SStupendous
      @SStupendous 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      If you're comparing being only 17 and having your legs and eye taken out, and seeing all of your friends and your captain ripped to pieces and smashed like eggs, and having to live with that, just getting out of enemy PoW camps after 6 years, at such a young age, with trying to become someone's friend just to be romantically involved with them and being surprised when they never knew the way you felt, and feeling sorry for yourself,
      then sir, you have no clue what actually being that last of Barrett's Privateers would actually feel like.

    • @SStupendous
      @SStupendous 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@leethejuggler1486 Yes.

    • @adityaprakashyadav9230
      @adityaprakashyadav9230 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Dude I took care of a girl since 9th grade I fought with I guy double my size coz he was bothering her in 10th class today was my first day in college I've just passed 12th grade and I just don't know why she is ignoring me as hell she used to talk to me so frankly and with ease and since a week god knows what happened I can just feel ya I haven't imagined any other girl with me since I was 14 now I am 19 I might be doing some awful teenage drama but dudeeeeee

  • @elcatrinc1996
    @elcatrinc1996 3 ปีที่แล้ว +59

    Imagine a band made of war veterans or crippled people singing this in Halifax dressed as privatiers? like some sort of gimmick play, it would be interesting

  • @rocketensky3336
    @rocketensky3336 3 ปีที่แล้ว +33

    I'm currently residing in a small village near Sherbrooke, Quebec. My best fwen is leaving the province (not to Halifax) and this was our send off song when he left today. Now im a broken man in a Sherbrooke Town. The Last of Eastern Township's Privateers ;-;

    • @joeblow9657
      @joeblow9657 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Sorry to hear that comrade. What is your friend leaving for?

  • @colinm8200
    @colinm8200 3 ปีที่แล้ว +67

    Im about to join the US coast guard. I will demand my captain to let us sing shanties. Good for morale and all.

    • @elainea7734
      @elainea7734 3 ปีที่แล้ว +25

      Speaking from experience it deff IS very good for morale lol. This particular song is actually considered an anthem of the Royal Canadian Navy, and every university east of Quebec.

    • @thedumbdog1964
      @thedumbdog1964 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Turn back

    • @Southern_Crusader
      @Southern_Crusader ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Also ask if you can give out Letters of Mark to American Privateers to harass the Cartels of Latin America.

    • @liamcragin
      @liamcragin 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I wholeheartedly support this choice. There’s also a disappointing lack of strap rum and drum and fife in modern militaries.

    • @colinm8200
      @colinm8200 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@liamcragin Whoops im in the Navy now instead. Petty Officer 3rd class. But i still want shanties.

  • @elinagel-bennett344
    @elinagel-bennett344 3 ปีที่แล้ว +231

    Hold on, the singer claims to be the last of a Berics Privateers. And yet, there is more than one man singing? The conspiracy is unraveling.

    • @atomiclight8574
      @atomiclight8574 3 ปีที่แล้ว +28

      well it is all stan rogers. Stan rogers' are singing

    • @AyleidCraft
      @AyleidCraft 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Beric?

    • @joeblow9657
      @joeblow9657 3 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      He found a new crew?

    • @icedragon2030
      @icedragon2030 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      You see, when his legs caved in he hit his voicepip so it sounds like more than one person

    • @mini_chimp_in_a_suit
      @mini_chimp_in_a_suit 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@AyleidCraft that had me rolling "beric"

  • @Astorath_the_Grim
    @Astorath_the_Grim 3 ปีที่แล้ว +70

    Makes me proud to be Canadian. RIP Stan Rogers.

    • @mchagnon7
      @mchagnon7 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      This is REAL country music.

  • @thecollector9797
    @thecollector9797 2 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    I like to think that the voices in the background who are singing with him are the voices of the others who didn’t make it, they keep him company during his long days. As he remembers it all.

  • @kinocorner976
    @kinocorner976 3 ปีที่แล้ว +126

    Person: “I’m gonna go cruise the sea for AMERICAN GOLD!”
    News: “Today a man tried sailing a boat near an American warship, the man’s ship was was torn to shreds by multiple 5-inch (127 mm)/62 Mk. 45 Mod 4 shells.

    • @simmerinzimmerman8751
      @simmerinzimmerman8751 3 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      “Witnesses onboard claim he was ‘smashed like a bowl of eggs”

    • @MrMobiusfan
      @MrMobiusfan 2 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      "GOD DAMN THEM ALL!" -His reported last words

    • @GentlemanBystander
      @GentlemanBystander ปีที่แล้ว

      >not Mk.38/M242 using MK210 HEI

    • @PilloTheStar
      @PilloTheStar ปีที่แล้ว

      The only thing left was both his legs

    • @Southern_Crusader
      @Southern_Crusader ปีที่แล้ว

      You know piracy can be raiding coastal settlements from the sea? You can land on the beach, raid, and then run off back to the sea. If only Congress would let us do that to Communist Asia, Iran, and cartel affiliated territories in latin America.

  • @Greyhound706
    @Greyhound706 3 ปีที่แล้ว +45

    So this is true sadness.....I salute you , For you are more than a broken man

    • @volcompro180
      @volcompro180 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @Al Tee or The Jeannie C.

  • @justin2308
    @justin2308 3 ปีที่แล้ว +40

    What the-? I’m an American and yet this song still makes me want to cruise the seas for American gold. How did Stan Rogers make these songs so darn REAL for everyone!?

    • @liamcragin
      @liamcragin 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      You could always cruise the seas for Spanish gold instead.

  • @JustinCasey216
    @JustinCasey216 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Im still a broken man on a halifax pier

  • @Cornerboy73
    @Cornerboy73 3 ปีที่แล้ว +23

    Poor great, great grandpa Elcid, he deserved a better fate. To be fair, I have been drunk while stumbling around the piers of the Halifax waterfront. Too many Keith's at the Lower Deck Pub, singing along to this song. Ahh, those were fun times, I hope to return someday !

  • @theirishanime007
    @theirishanime007 3 ปีที่แล้ว +41

    I have been a broken man on many pier.
    One in Singapore and another in Japan.
    The sea can be cruel lads!

    • @LancashireAndYorkshire
      @LancashireAndYorkshire 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Does a pier somewhere in an English seaside town count?

    • @vulpesinculta3238
      @vulpesinculta3238 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      @@LancashireAndYorkshire An English seaside town's pier counts not only as a pier, but also as an injury.

    • @SStupendous
      @SStupendous 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@LancashireAndYorkshire ...Halifax in Nova Scotia, just to make it clear.

    • @LancashireAndYorkshire
      @LancashireAndYorkshire 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@SStupendous ik

  • @actionman9451
    @actionman9451 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    He’s sad until his crew come to sit and sing with him to cheer him up, he may be broken but he’s happy.

  • @ianwilliams2632
    @ianwilliams2632 3 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    Tfw you're from Halifax and the docklands never looked like this painting but you wish they had
    Thanks for showing some love to us Bluenosers :)

  • @prestono7557
    @prestono7557 3 ปีที่แล้ว +97

    Canada's Favorite Musician!!! RIP Stan Rogers. We miss you, But you will always be in Canadians Hearts!!! (Note: I am Canadian and not all of us sleep in igloos and drink maple syrup by the gallons.)

    • @prestono7557
      @prestono7557 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @Al Tee hahaha

    • @nicholasneyhart396
      @nicholasneyhart396 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I am from the us and while no I don't live in an igloo more than 4-5 months of the year I do in fact drink homemade maple syrup by the gallon.

    • @Totallyfizzle
      @Totallyfizzle 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      "I am Canadian and not all of us sleep in igloos and drink maple syrup by the gallons."
      Cringe

    • @chaosXP3RT
      @chaosXP3RT 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I'm American (And not all of us are fat and dumb as bricks)

    • @aperson9641
      @aperson9641 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Then you aren’t a true Canadian

  • @Omnicide101
    @Omnicide101 3 ปีที่แล้ว +29

    Ariiiiiiise and be merry,
    And sing out while you caaan,
    The world will never see the likes
    Of dear old Staaaan...

  • @Bobalini1
    @Bobalini1 3 ปีที่แล้ว +28

    Ahh, a Canadian classic. I like to think the crutch helps because I can't imagine walking in peg legs is a steady task lol

  • @somecringelord5387
    @somecringelord5387 3 ปีที่แล้ว +41

    Goddamn them all!

  • @yukonsurvival
    @yukonsurvival 3 ปีที่แล้ว +24

    Damn Halifax looked hella different before the explosion haha

  • @ddraig1509
    @ddraig1509 3 ปีที่แล้ว +24

    Your videos always cover my favourite song, along with the original wojacks, your vids are pure gold

  • @Bornst3ll3r
    @Bornst3ll3r 3 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    If you listen to the lyrics this song is hella sad, poor broken man was tricked into being a private he didn’t sign up to fight and now he’s injured :( hope he found peace

  • @Bollthorn
    @Bollthorn 3 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    Stan Rogers, a gentle giant with the voice of a titan, taken from us way too soon.

  • @pat7785
    @pat7785 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    I live in Halifax and sometimes I just go down to the boardwalk and listen to this

  • @sam_s_
    @sam_s_ 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    This song really does a great job of helping you put yourself in the headspace of the narrator.

  • @j-naggesbagels1850
    @j-naggesbagels1850 3 ปีที่แล้ว +23

    I love these types of videos.

  • @KarlPHorse
    @KarlPHorse 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    To be fair, if you really expect to rob merchant ships without the risk that you will have to use force, or fight off American Navy ships, then you aren't using your head.

    • @elipetrou9308
      @elipetrou9308 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      They didn’t expect to, they were lied to by berret who tricked them all

  • @mchagnon7
    @mchagnon7 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Barrett: Come on Morty! It'll be fun! 5 minute adventure!

  • @MacEachen7
    @MacEachen7 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    i am a broken man on a halifax pier

  • @ashkash8686
    @ashkash8686 3 ปีที่แล้ว +20

    At least you arent Barrett.

    • @MaritimeHorrors
      @MaritimeHorrors 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      He went quickly... But the broken man must suffer and linger.

  • @elipetrou9308
    @elipetrou9308 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    We’ll all be a broken man on a Halifax pier eventually.

  • @marksheen4873
    @marksheen4873 17 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    Stop doing this to me. I’m trying to sleep and you get me simultaneously hyped and depressed

  • @DeNihility
    @DeNihility 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Ah, Halifax. A most wonderful place where dreams come true and people go to lament on their life choices as is where all their troubles began.

  • @aarondunne2655
    @aarondunne2655 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    These videos are honestly buried gold on this site.

  • @the_mechanic_2237
    @the_mechanic_2237 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    you have no idea how much I relate to this shit.

  • @RosseRue
    @RosseRue 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    "What kind of music do you like?"
    "Ah...well, you see, it's...a t m o s p h e r i c."

  • @SarcyseTiranin
    @SarcyseTiranin 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Randomly turned onto NPR one evening and this was playing. I was like "WTF? This is awesome."

  • @freerbx793
    @freerbx793 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    John Paul Jones been real quiet since this banger dropped

  • @toro95164
    @toro95164 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    well this guy ended in piazza San Marco Venice in XVIII century, could be worse

  • @jarredlevesque3659
    @jarredlevesque3659 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Ain't nothing better than smashing some beers while screaming this at the Lower Deck

  • @raptor4916
    @raptor4916 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    another banger in the genre of songs by foriegners that make me proud to be an american

  • @CarputingYT
    @CarputingYT 3 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    Alright, fine, I subscribed, you win. I expect more of this art. Thank you m'lord.

  • @VMUDream
    @VMUDream 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    >Tfw working construction is the closest you can get to high adventure

  • @MurcuryEntertainment
    @MurcuryEntertainment 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I may be a fancy inlander whose never set foot on a working vessel, but damned if the tragedy doesn't speak to me.

  • @bh-w2297
    @bh-w2297 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I actually can't believe what I'm looking at right now

  • @GRIZZLY-nw9gh
    @GRIZZLY-nw9gh 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Idea for a future video: Barrett's Privateers but your wish [of being in Sherbrooke] is granted

  • @homfri111
    @homfri111 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    join a private security contractor for admin work they said, you wont see anything but AC office's and wear scratchy polo's they said, you'll never see a broken sandbox country they said....

  • @matheusqueiroz5284
    @matheusqueiroz5284 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I identify a lot with this song... I was badly injured a few years back, and I can only dream now, of a time that doesn't comes back

  • @GallowglassVT
    @GallowglassVT 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Stan Rogers was a king.

  • @kentmyrtle9315
    @kentmyrtle9315 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    We need one of these for 16 Tons - Tennessee Ernie Ford

    • @itsZach05
      @itsZach05 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      I agree

    • @L_mattox
      @L_mattox 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      That's an awesome idea. "16 Tons, but your an unemployed man in Appalachia, after the town coal mine closed".

  • @josh_hestilow
    @josh_hestilow 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Imagine being part of the best Navy in the world, just to get clapped by your former Colonies

  • @mithrandir3047
    @mithrandir3047 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    So glad you used Stan Roger's version.

  • @killedr6621
    @killedr6621 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Hearing this on the Halifax boardwalk, makes me glad Im home

  • @noahhenderson3164
    @noahhenderson3164 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Goddamn. Sea shanties are as beautiful as when they are about pirates, private companies, or of the kings navy. Bless up you scallywags and I hope you dream of american gold 🇺🇲

  • @jacopoabbruscato9271
    @jacopoabbruscato9271 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    In the picture it's St. Mark's square with the Ducal Palace in Venice

  • @nosajkeram
    @nosajkeram 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I like The Real McKenzies version better.

  • @ironclad9769
    @ironclad9769 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    The Dreadnought but you're leaving New York harbor

  • @Joestir
    @Joestir ปีที่แล้ว +1

    This video introduced me to Stan Rogers

  • @trevorfranks69
    @trevorfranks69 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Nothing can drown this feelings.

  • @teletubetodd
    @teletubetodd 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Magnificent! This is a superb performance of my favorite sea chantey! Thank you!

  • @Achilies404
    @Achilies404 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Please hold fast and keep making these, they are fantastic!

  • @renthm6675
    @renthm6675 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    If ones last name is Barrett, should I be afraid of being smashed like eggs and refuse to go on ships named the Antelope

  • @freerbx793
    @freerbx793 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Not a cell phone in sight, just everying living the moment.

  • @precastpear6437
    @precastpear6437 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Big sad 😢

  • @MrCanada205
    @MrCanada205 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    You haven’t heard this song till you’ve heard 50 wasted dal bros singing the chorus outside the dome at 3 am

  • @PViolety
    @PViolety 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I can’t listen to this on a Halifax pier but I can on a swing set.

  • @northwesternadventurer
    @northwesternadventurer 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Dear Captain, you are a legend. I subscribed to your fleet. All aboard!

  • @tim.a.k.mertens
    @tim.a.k.mertens 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Holy shit my prayer has been answered

  • @BigCuttyCrack
    @BigCuttyCrack 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Halifax is a great city , recommend a visit

  • @ojosmacabros
    @ojosmacabros 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Finally this meme reaches Barrett's Privateers!!!

  • @darrionsjoquist9475
    @darrionsjoquist9475 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Goddamn them all, they told me, we'd fight to set Minorities free, We'd spread no Hate, Spread no fear, now I'm a broke young man serving down at the pier, the last of Kshamas Volunteers...

  • @robgrey6183
    @robgrey6183 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Nice to see the man bun hipster crowd appreciating Stan Rogers.

  • @JamesBond-ux1it
    @JamesBond-ux1it 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    the feels

  • @Notmyrealname69420
    @Notmyrealname69420 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    This song hits different when you’re actually from sherbrooke

  • @Captain_Cookus
    @Captain_Cookus 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    RIP Stan Rogers

  • @JosephANagyJr
    @JosephANagyJr 3 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    God-damn them all, we were told that we'd sail for American gold, we'd fire no guns and we'd shed no tears and I'm still a broken man on a Halifax pier and taxation is still theft.

    • @frankishe7317
      @frankishe7317 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Only if you get no services from said taxation

    • @JosephANagyJr
      @JosephANagyJr 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@frankishe7317 The definition of taxation is the forcible taking of money. It doesn't matter if the thief then provides you a service.

    • @frankishe7317
      @frankishe7317 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@JosephANagyJr if you are in a country and make use of its services, then it is not theft, it is a transaction, such is the price of living in a civilized society

    • @JosephANagyJr
      @JosephANagyJr 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@frankishe7317 Enjoy your cognitive dissonance.

    • @frankishe7317
      @frankishe7317 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@JosephANagyJr enjoy your naivete, eventually you'll understand modern civilization

  • @atomiclight8574
    @atomiclight8574 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    The dislikes are from the rest of Barret's privateers

  • @fortniteman9079
    @fortniteman9079 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    this channel keeps getting better and better

  • @sophiestudios2911
    @sophiestudios2911 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    BARRETT’S PRIVATEERS LETS GOOOO

  • @itsZach05
    @itsZach05 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Damn them all

  • @rhyzvanic3660
    @rhyzvanic3660 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Halifax is a pretty place, or so I hear. If it's as nice as the rest of New Brunswick, It should be!

  • @stephenhaag2358
    @stephenhaag2358 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Make more of these!

  • @SpicyPog
    @SpicyPog 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Song hits different when you’ve just been sunk by grade 5 reapers

  • @patriciusvunkempen102
    @patriciusvunkempen102 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    ooooof
    playing naval action after loosing my niagara, aaah the feels

  • @ArchCone
    @ArchCone 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    At least you might still be alive with your boys.