Running Wild Lyrics

Album: Unknown

Kiss of Death Lyrics

1714 that was the year

The Spanish fleet ran out of luck

The weather was stormy

The sea was splashing

Furious fighting and thunderstruck

Three hundred men

Fighting hand in hand

Abandonment or raid

Tons of "pieces of eight"

The flotilla was driven down to the reefs

The wooden hulls of the vessels were cracked

300.000 pieces of eight

The fleet of that year

Was totally wrecked

Three hundred men

Fighting hand in hand

Abandonment or raid

Tons of "pieces of eight"

The viceroy commander to furnish a squad

60 soldiers to dreg up the plate

Tool all their salvage to a small camp ashore

Lack of suspicion no thought of a raid

Jennings came up with a hazardous plan

The Spanish garrison was taken by guise

Three sailing vessels, three hundred men

300 000 their glittering prize

Three hundred men

Fighting hand in hand

Abandonment or raid

Tons of "pieces of eight"

Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh,

The Spanish plate hauled off by raid

Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh,

Jennings' trick a painful kick

During their escape they happened to spy

A gorgeous Spanish merchant ship

"In for a penny, in for a pound"

They got them in their steely grip

And several thousand "pieces of eight"

To fill their ships up to the deck

Jennings' fleet sailed out to sea

No one ever found his track

Three hundred men

Fighting hand in hand

Abandonment or raid

Tons of "pieces of eight"

Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh,

The Spanish plate hauled off by raid

Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh,

Jennings' trick a painful kick

Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh,

impudent tries will win the price

Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh,

no soldier pack will fund his track