Ballad of the Gentleman Pirate

Hey, Stede, how about married life?
 And how is that nag of a wife?
 She's still a bee in a Bonnet
 The first wave out, I jumped on it
 Because gentlemen don't play that way
 I found a few ships for sell
 Gathered up some men and paid them well
 Wearing my finest clothes
 I worked my way up the coast
 With a gentleman's smile all the way
 The shore on the Carolina Beach
 I tagged up with Mr. Teach
 Took captive Mr. Wragg
 Traded for indigo, drugs, and money bags
 This gentlemen preyed to get paid
 Through the inlet of Cape Fear
 Colonel Rhett, he knew how to steer
 We replaced the heart and dagger
 With a white flag, without swagger
 And then the gentleman was taken in
 Could this be the end of a gentleman's Revenge
 Wells bled through the cells of the Provost dungeon
 Allies and eyes on the outside helped me to get free again
 But I'll be damned if ole William didn't find me on Sullivan
 After rejecting my pleas
 More than thirty of us hanged at the Battery
 Left there to gently sway
 As a warning, they watched us decay
 And then the Gentleman was tossed in the marsh