Like some other Ween songs it's hard to tell if they're poking fun at the crass bigotry or celebrating it for its idiocy.
The line that sticks out to me is "since you were a child." It doesn't say "since we were children" or something like that. I think they're pointing out that the traditional marriages of the sailors who sang these shanties might have been what we'd call "child trafficking" today.
So yes at the end he's drinking with his mates to gear up for stealing her back. And in doing so he becomes a pirate himself. But to us he has been a villain all along.
The deeply dark humor of Ween is that some poor fools out there are mistaking this for a love song.
Like some other Ween songs it's hard to tell if they're poking fun at the crass bigotry or celebrating it for its idiocy.
The line that sticks out to me is "since you were a child." It doesn't say "since we were children" or something like that. I think they're pointing out that the traditional marriages of the sailors who sang these shanties might have been what we'd call "child trafficking" today.
So yes at the end he's drinking with his mates to gear up for stealing her back. And in doing so he becomes a pirate himself. But to us he has been a villain all along.
The deeply dark humor of Ween is that some poor fools out there are mistaking this for a love song.