Originally published in 1965 in Swedish. When their ship is blown out from under them, a band of pirates temporarily settles down in town. Shiver my timbers! Lollipop! Jolly Roger to the top!" This is one of those insistently rollicking ditties rife with visual slapstick (or cannonball conks) and exclamation points. When their ship is blasted in a battle with some other pirates, the unshaven and bloodthirsty band swims to an island where they drink and dance and then settle down, each with a wife and a new occupation: "Pirate Farmer becomes a farmer. Pirate Bridges puts up bridges. Pirate Moore opens a store," and so on. But one day a recruiting pirate ship comes by and "the call of the sea is far too strong," so it's "Off to find a Spanish galley, off to board her for her treasure." The deliberately obvious rhymes and the bright cartoon-like pictures tell you not to take any of it seriously.
