The Escape

Intro: Emu> And so it began The story how Elzevir would look after John as his own son And the smugglers betrayed on Moonfleet Bay By Maskew looking now at Elzevir’s gun Then a shot rang out in the morning light Maskew fell a hole between his eyes But it was his own men who brought him down And they also got poor John oh they also shot poor John Oooh it’s a dangerous world boys Oooh with the smuggling crew Oooh it’s a dangerous life boys When you’re running from the Revenue When you’re running from the Revenue And so to escape it came now for Elzevir to pick up the boy And carry him away For he could not walk with a bullet in the leg And they made for the safety of the Purbeck cave T’was there that John would read one night The words in the locket by candlelight For the Bible verses held the key to Blackbeard’s hidden treasure At the bottom of a Castle well Oooh it’s a dangerous world boys Oooh in a smuggler’s life Oooh in the Days of our age boys That’s where the secret of the treasure lies That’s where the secret of the treasure lies >C   >E That’s where the secret of the treasure lies That’s where the secret of the treasure lies Oh we’re going to be rich boys The treasure we will find Blackbeard’s bones are dancing here tonight Yes we’re going to be rich boys the treasure we will find At fourscore feet deep well North is where it lies