Barrett's Privateers but you're a broken man on a Halifax pier
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- Опубликовано: 18 мар 2021
- As everyone else walks along on two functional legs, you sit by a Halifax pier and remember the battle that took your legs, smashed Barrett and the sickening sloop that was once called The Antelope.
Once again, I don't own any of the audio in the video, I simply mixed together sounds I found on RUclips. I made the thumbnail in Photoshop.
'Barrett's Privateers' was made by Stan Rogers. There are a few versions of it on RUclips but the one I used for this video can be found here: • Barrett's Privateers
Thank you very much to Nolan Waters, AmigoRoberto, Kenneth Schlegel, Nolan Zona, Andres Cardona, and lastly Justin Hall for recommending Barrett's Privateers!
I know, how can he use a crutch if both of his legs are gone? Good question, I suppose he can't - I'll be honest, I forgot that both the protagonist's legs are blown off when I made the thumbnail. Imagine he has two peg legs and that there's another crutch lying next to him! 
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tfw your legs are made out of the same thing as the pier
the floor is made of leg
Hmm yes this pier is made of leg
Tfw someone asks why the two planks from the end have been stolen
Imagine walking down the pier and everyone hears you coming from the wood knocking together
Knock knock knock knock
Lt. Dan, you got no legs!
Better than being on a Halifax pier in 1917 on December 6th.
That's the day finland gained independence Suomi Finland perkele!
@@esvall0568 Huh, that's pretty coincidental. So good and bad happened that day.
I'd like to thank Pandora's algorithm for introducing me to this piece of history already
@@esvall0568 based fin
hehe, boat go booooooooooooom
We've all been a broken man on a Halifax pier at one time or another
Now we just end up with an office job, with both legs intact. Not sure how many tears are shed..
@@neilwilson5785 Aye...Tis unfortunate...So much of our lives wasted...
If reincarnation is real then this be truer than it actually is
I’ve literally been one since I live there
I think I'll be a broke man for the rest of my life. I'm 26
can we just get a moment of silence for Barrett?
man was smashed like a bowl of eggs.
Least he's got nothing to worry about now. The main trunk carried off both the singer's legs.
@@Lepper36 excellent point.
Last time I was smashed that much it took three days to sleep off.
@@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.
@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)
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
feels bad man
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.
underrated comment
@@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
Can we get in F in chat? Damn dude, I feel ya and taxation is theft.
Stan Rogers was one of the greatest talents the world has ever known
Such a shame he died so tragically.
Yes, very unknown but I'm so happy that his music is being appreciated 40 years later
@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.
I call him the godfather of shanties
This is my favorite quote of all time
>tfw you'll never cruise the seas for American gold.
You don’t have to make me cry
>tfw you'll probably never sail aboard a colonial ship
That's good, given what happened to this poor sod.
>you'll never cross the Ukrainian Sea and conquer Europe in the name of Sky Father
Vulpes Inculta shut up furry!
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!
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.
@@scottfriske9186 Halifax
@@PeterBalfor last
@@secretbaguette hotel
How I wish I was in Sherbrooke now!
penus
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.
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.
me: *already loading my rifle and lowering the sails* Interesting
fire no guns and shed no tears 4 sure fellas
Alright boys. Let’s start a crew.
Do chinses fishing fleets count
"And the cook in the scuppers with the staggers and jags"
*googles every word in that sentence*
Translation please?
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.
The 0 dislikes are from the people who shed tears
It is 3 now. One more will match the cracked 4-pounders - let's do it Reddit!
13
The 15 dislikes are from people who fired guns
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...
Have things gotten better for you since?
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.
I hope things have gotten better for you, dude.
We’ve all been there. You shatter but it only makes cracks, leaves scars. The pieces stay together.
Holdfast and forge on me bucko
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
On the bright side, Halifax is a nice city. Especially in the summer.
Until 1917, then the mont blanc is struck by the imo and kaboom
I wouldn't recommend it when there's Frenchies by the shores.
Something doesn't feel right when they're around.
Ye hear it’s kinda boring tho
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
@@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.
Makes me proud to be Canadian. RIP Stan Rogers.
This is REAL country music.
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!?
You could always cruise the seas for Spanish gold instead.
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
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 ;-;
Sorry to hear that comrade. What is your friend leaving for?
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.
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.
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
Rip bruv, been there. It gets better eventually.
Girls are temporary. Brotherhood is forever.
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.
@@leethejuggler1486 Yes.
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
So this is true sadness.....I salute you , For you are more than a broken man
@Al Tee or The Jeannie C.
Im about to join the US coast guard. I will demand my captain to let us sing shanties. Good for morale and all.
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.
Turn back
Also ask if you can give out Letters of Mark to American Privateers to harass the Cartels of Latin America.
I wholeheartedly support this choice. There’s also a disappointing lack of strap rum and drum and fife in modern militaries.
@@liamcragin Whoops im in the Navy now instead. Petty Officer 3rd class. But i still want shanties.
My name’s Barrett, but I’m also American, so this is definitely splitting my heart
Get your own gold, England
Wanna go sail for English gold?
This is your fault
Goddamn you
...I was told we'd cruise the seas for American gold?
@@Defender98TV
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.
“Witnesses onboard claim he was ‘smashed like a bowl of eggs”
"GOD DAMN THEM ALL!" -His reported last words
>not Mk.38/M242 using MK210 HEI
The only thing left was both his legs
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.
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 !
Goddamn them all!
Barrett: Come on Morty! It'll be fun! 5 minute adventure!
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.)
@Al Tee hahaha
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.
"I am Canadian and not all of us sleep in igloos and drink maple syrup by the gallons."
Cringe
I'm American (And not all of us are fat and dumb as bricks)
Then you aren’t a true Canadian
Damn Halifax looked hella different before the explosion haha
I have been a broken man on many pier.
One in Singapore and another in Japan.
The sea can be cruel lads!
Does a pier somewhere in an English seaside town count?
@@GreatCenteralGlory An English seaside town's pier counts not only as a pier, but also as an injury.
@@GreatCenteralGlory ...Halifax in Nova Scotia, just to make it clear.
@@SStupendous ik
We’ll all be a broken man on a Halifax pier eventually.
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.
well it is all stan rogers. Stan rogers' are singing
Beric?
He found a new crew?
You see, when his legs caved in he hit his voicepip so it sounds like more than one person
@@AyleidCraft that had me rolling "beric"
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
Ariiiiiiise and be merry,
And sing out while you caaan,
The world will never see the likes
Of dear old Staaaan...
Stan Rogers, a gentle giant with the voice of a titan, taken from us way too soon.
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
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 :)
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.
At least you arent Barrett.
He went quickly... But the broken man must suffer and linger.
John Paul Jones been real quiet since this banger dropped
I love these types of videos.
I live in Halifax and sometimes I just go down to the boardwalk and listen to this
This song really does a great job of helping you put yourself in the headspace of the narrator.
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.
They didn’t expect to, they were lied to by berret who tricked them all
Ain't nothing better than smashing some beers while screaming this at the Lower Deck
"What kind of music do you like?"
"Ah...well, you see, it's...a t m o s p h e r i c."
Your videos always cover my favourite song, along with the original wojacks, your vids are pure gold
These videos are honestly buried gold on this site.
I relate to this song a lot. I know how it feels to have your life irreparably damaged from a decision that seemed good at the time, especially with coercion from others. And then you feel stuck, as if there's nowhere else for your life to go.
A broken man.
i am a broken man on a halifax pier
>Tfw working construction is the closest you can get to high adventure
I may be a fancy inlander whose never set foot on a working vessel, but damned if the tragedy doesn't speak to me.
I actually can't believe what I'm looking at right now
Imagine being part of the best Navy in the world, just to get clapped by your former Colonies
Randomly turned onto NPR one evening and this was playing. I was like "WTF? This is awesome."
well this guy ended in piazza San Marco Venice in XVIII century, could be worse
Nice to see the man bun hipster crowd appreciating Stan Rogers.
you have no idea how much I relate to this shit.
Alright, fine, I subscribed, you win. I expect more of this art. Thank you m'lord.
Thank you! I'll try to deliver.
Hearing this on the Halifax boardwalk, makes me glad Im home
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....
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
This video introduced me to Stan Rogers
Damn them all
So glad you used Stan Roger's version.
In the picture it's St. Mark's square with the Ducal Palace in Venice
Shh
Stan Rogers was a king.
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 🇺🇲
The Dreadnought but you're leaving New York harbor
We need one of these for 16 Tons - Tennessee Ernie Ford
I agree
That's an awesome idea. "16 Tons, but your an unemployed man in Appalachia, after the town coal mine closed".
Big sad 😢
The dislikes are from the rest of Barret's privateers
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...
RIP Stan Rogers
Nothing can drown this feelings.
I can’t listen to this on a Halifax pier but I can on a swing set.
Idea for a future video: Barrett's Privateers but your wish [of being in Sherbrooke] is granted
Finally this meme reaches Barrett's Privateers!!!
finally a meme about a good fucking chantey, stan rogers no less
Not a cell phone in sight, just everying living the moment.
Dear Captain, you are a legend. I subscribed to your fleet. All aboard!
That feeling when you set sail on the Antelope (the scummiest vessel you've ever seen, a sickening sight even) on the day of the king's birthday in 1778 with a crew of 20 brave fishermen now know as "Barrett's Privateers" after receiving a letter of marque to plunder American ships for their gold, hoping to fire no guns and shed no tears only to engage a Yankee hove (against which your cracked 4 pounders were of little use) that you chased for 2 whole days and have your captain smashed like a bowl of eggs and your legs crushed causing you to, in fact, fire guns and shed tears, only to be washed up on a Halifax pier six years later, a broken man wishing that he was in Sherbrooke, the last of Barrett's privateers.
I hate when that happens.
I have become said broken man
Holy shit my prayer has been answered
If ones last name is Barrett, should I be afraid of being smashed like eggs and refuse to go on ships named the Antelope
the feels
my dad was a nuclear engineer for the us navy, and he had a *great* time in halifax (he got floored)
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.
Only if you get no services from said taxation
@@frankishe7317 The definition of taxation is the forcible taking of money. It doesn't matter if the thief then provides you a service.
@@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
@@frankishe7317 Enjoy your cognitive dissonance.
@@JosephANagyJr enjoy your naivete, eventually you'll understand modern civilization
BARRETT’S PRIVATEERS LETS GOOOO
Please hold fast and keep making these, they are fantastic!
Song hits different when you’ve just been sunk by grade 5 reapers
Halifax is a great city , recommend a visit
This song hits different when you’re actually from sherbrooke
Magnificent! This is a superb performance of my favorite sea chantey! Thank you!
Goddamn them all
You haven’t heard this song till you’ve heard 50 wasted dal bros singing the chorus outside the dome at 3 am
At least you might still be alive with your boys.
God Damned Them ALL