Long Gone Days - Oak Island Revisited

I recognized your gin soaked face
As we scudded down the waves
In the quiet smoke of cannon
From the ships of long gone days

The sails were wrent and burning
From the mizzen to the main
The Spanish captain thrust his dirk
You smashed in half his brain

Chorus
In a time when we were young
In a time when we were brave
We sailed into the New World
In the mist of long gone days

We took it back by tooth and nail
For the blood in English crowns
Flesh is weak and tarnished
So we stuck her in the ground

One hundred slaves to dig the pit
There's fifty more to come
They'll set the traps and shift the beach
Before their lives are done

Chorus
In a time when we were young
In a time when we were brave
We sailed into the New World
In the mist of long gone days

Fifty tons of eelgrass
Charcoal and putty
I've lost my taste for breadfruit
Spirits curse the seekers
Dead men dancin' on dead men's chests
Roll the bones
That can't be blessed

Even when they find the shaft
It'll only bring them death
Madness fills their hot pursuit
Until their final breath

But the chest that holds the key
Rests safely in the clay
On an isle of oaken timber
In a Nova Scotia bay