Also, an unrelated note about the lyrics: "My sails in rags with the staggers and the jags" is borrowed from Stan Roger's 1976 east-coast canadian folk song Barrett's Privateers. The sloop on which the narrator enlists to sail as a privateer is described "she'd a list to the port and her sails in rags/and the cook in the scuppers with his staggers and jags".
Also, an unrelated note about the lyrics: "My sails in rags with the staggers and the jags" is borrowed from Stan Roger's 1976 east-coast canadian folk song Barrett's Privateers. The sloop on which the narrator enlists to sail as a privateer is described "she'd a list to the port and her sails in rags/and the cook in the scuppers with his staggers and jags".