With a physog as stiff as a cowhide boot,

And he skippered a ship from Georgetown, Maine,

In the’way-back days of the pirates’ reign.

And the story I tell it has to do

With Orasmus Nute and a black flag crew;

The tale of the upright course he went

In the face of a certain predicament.

For Orasmus Nute was a godly man

And he faithfully followed the Quaker plan

Of love for all and a peaceful life