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"Barrett's Privateers" is a modern folk song in the style of a sea shanty, written and performed by Canadian musician Stan Rogers, having been inspired after a song session with the Friends of Fiddler's Green at the Northern Lights Festival Boréal in Sudbury, Ontario. Although Barrett, the ''Antelope'' and other specific instances mentioned in the song are fictional, "Barrett's Privateers" is full of many authentic details of privateering in the late 18th century. The song was released on the album ''Fogarty's Cove'' in 1976 and has since gained popularity as a drinking song, with cover versions by many bands. The song makes use of mixed meter, regularly switching back and forth from 4/4 to 5/4 time, which is unusual for a sea shanty , as they are traditionally sung in a strict, unchanging meter. It is regarded as one of the Royal Canadian Navy's unofficial anthems, the unofficial anthem of Atlantic Canada and also often heard sung at many Atlantic universities including Saint Mary's, Dalhousie, Memorial University of Newfoundland, University of King's College, and University of New Brunswick. ==Plot== "Barrett's Privateers" is sung from the point of view of a young fisherman who enlisted on Elcid Barrett's ill-fated ''Antelope''. The ''Antelope'' is described as the "scummiest vessel () ever seen", and the song describes the many faults of the decrepit sloop.〔Sloops, single-masted fore-and-aft–rigged vessels, were mainly used by short range privateers in Atlantic Canada and fared poorly in West Indies cruises. (Conlin, Dan "Sloop Frances Mary" ''Canadian Privateer Homepage'' ). Some have speculated that Rogers meant a sloop-of-war, a naval vessel smaller than a Frigate, but this was strictly a naval term and not used by privateers.〕 After describing the initial voyage to Jamaica seeking American merchantmen and the problems with the ''Antelope'', the unnamed narrator sings about how they finally found one, loaded down with gold. Unfortunately, the ''Antelopes main-mast is knocked down with one volley from the American vessel, and Barrett is killed. The truck of the main sail "carrie() off both () legs" causing him to become a broken man. The last two stanzas reveal that he is only "in (his) twenty-third year", and lost both his legs in the battle six years earlier, and that it had taken all six years to make his way home. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Barrett's Privateers」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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