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Pirates! Presented by the Third Grade Class Lovettsville Elementary 1 The Musical
Pirates!
Presented by the Third Grade Class
Lovettsville Elementary
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The Musical
*Start Entrance Music #1*Curtain Closed
Introduction: Charlotte (C ) : Avast and welcome! We are glad you could join us for today’s 3rd grade production of “Pirates – the Musical”. Join our crew of colorful scallywags as they get ready for the annual “Caribbean Crooners Talent Show” for pirates. Iris (C ): But shiver-me-timbers, there’s a stowaway on board who threatens to ruin the crew’s plans. The pirates and prisoners will all have to work together to win the competition and be crowned kings-and-queens of the high seas!
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Top 10 Signs Your Child is Turning into a Pirate
Hayley F. (M)Pirate Crew: Now parents and teachers… principals and
friends… before we see the show, we thought there were a few warrrrrnings you should hear.
Alyssa (M)Pirate Crew: The life of a Pirate has a certain
charm, and many of the children watching our show might be tempted to come over to the darrrrrrrrk side, so to speak. Here are the Top 10 signs your child is turning into a pirate…
Cadence (M)Pirate Crew: … You know your child is turning into a Pirate he is
afraid of a ticking clock. [runs around with alligator puppet and ticking sound]
Hailey D. (M)Pirate Crew: … You know your child is turning into a Pirate when she starts to grow a beard.
Hayley F. (M)Pirate Crew: … You know your child is turning into a Pirate when
he steals all your jewelry and wears it all at once.
Alyssa (M)
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Pirate Crew: … You know your child is turning into a Pirate when she sweeps the floor and swabs the deck without being asked.
Cadence (M)Pirate Crew: … You know your child is turning into a Pirate when
you make a delicious dinner and she says she’d rather “eat grog” and has buried her treasure in her mashed potatoes.
Hailey D. (M)Pirate Crew: … You know your child is turning into a Pirate when
he spends $300 on color coordinated bandanas.
Hayley F. (M)Pirate Crew: … You know your child is turning into a Pirate when
she doesn’t showerrr for a week.
Alyssa (M)Pirate Crew: … You know your child is turning into a Pirate when
they attach extra wood to their bunkbed to make their siblings walk the plank.
Cadence (M)Pirate Crew: … You know your child is turning into a Pirate
when he holds his sibling prisoner and demands a rrransom for their rrrelease.
Hailey D. (M)Pirate Crew: … You know your child is turning into a Pirate when
you get a letter from her teacher asking why she has such bad grammarrrrrrr.
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Scene 1: Kennedy (D)Stowaway: [talking directly to the
audience] Pirates! Pirates are very bad people… make no mistake about it! They rob peasants. They ransack villages.
Thatcher (H)Stowaway:They use terrible
grammar. They sing bawdy songs very loudly, but hardly ever in tune. Yes… pirates are very bad people. (pauses)
Kennedy & Thatcher: We really want to be one!
*Open Curtain Aden (M):Pirate Crew: Hey, David
David (H)Pirate Crew: Yes, Aden?
Aden (M):Pirate Crew: I wanted to go to the movies last night,
but my dad wouldn’t let me! 5
David (H):Pirate Crew: Why couldn’t you go?
Aden (M):Pirate Crew : Because the movie was rated RRRRRRRRR!
Charlie (H):Pirate Crew : Hey, Jonah!
Jonah (H):Pirate Crew : Yes, Charlie?
Charlie (H):Pirate Crew : I’m glad we’re not in school today!
Jonah (H):Pirate Crew : Why?
Charlie (H):Pirate Crew : I’m worried about my report card!
Jonah (H):Pirate Crew : What’s to worry about? What kind of
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Charlie (H):Pirate Crew : High C’s… Collin (C )Pirate Crew : Hey, Joe!
Pirate Crew : Yes, Collin?
Collin (C )Pirate Crew : Speaking of school, do you know what my favorite
subject is? Joe (C )Pirate Crew : I don’t know… what’s your favorite subject?
Collin (C )Pirate Crew : It’s aRRRRRRt for sure! Joe (C )Pirate Crew : Hey, Collin
Collin (C )Pirate Crew : Yes, Joe
Joe (C )Pirate Crew : What is a sea monster’s favorite snack?
Collin (C )
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Pirate Crew : Hmmm…I don’t know…
Joe (C )Pirate Crew : Why, it’s “Fish and Ships”, of course! All Pirate come to stage front together, and ask a joke of the audience. All Pirate Speakers: [to audience] Knock, knock. Audience: Who’s there. All Pirate Speakers: Interrupting pirate! Audience: Interrupting pir… All Pirate Speakers: ARRR!!!
Scene 2Kennedy & ThatcherStowaways: [coming back on stage, singing
unaccompanied and dancing like the pirates were] Pirates all are we! Pirates all are we!
Wesley (M)First Mate: Avast!
Kennedy & ThatcherStowaway: [continues] Pirates all are we! Pirates all are we!
Wesley (M)First Mate: [getting irritated] Avast!
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Kennedy & ThatcherStowaway: Pirates allllllllllllllll are…
Wesley (M)First Mate: [with rage] Avast! Avast! Avast! That means, “Stop it”!!!
Stowaways: [finally notices that no one else is singing and that all the pirates are looking on with disbelief; stops and looks embarrassed]
Wesley (M)First Mate: When I say, “Avast,” you stop! Stop! Stop!
Don’t you speak pirate?
Thatcher (H)Stowaway: No ma’am. Not yet. But I plan to. For
I, too, want to be a pirate… a Pirate Crewjust like you!
All pirates: [look at Stowaway, pause, and then point and laugh]
Elliot (C ) Redbeard: You? A pirate?
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Ethan (M)Orangebeard: You’re too small!
Richy (M)Yellowbeard: You’re too young!
Braedon (M)Greenbeard: You’re too clean! Kennedy (D)Stowaway: But being a Pirate
Crewis all I’ve ever wanted to be. It’s what I’ve dreamed about ever since I was a child. Watch – watch this… [takes out a very small toy sword and waves it about while hopping up and down playfully] Avast! Avast! Avast, I say!
Braedon (M)Greenbeard: Have you ever robbed an honest man?
Kennedy (D)Stowaway: Why, no…
Elliot (C )Redbeard: Have you ever ransacked a village?
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Kennedy (D)Stowaway: Well, not exactly…
Ethan (M)Orangebeard: Have you ever been six months at sea
without a bath or a shave or a shower?
Thatcher (H)Stowaway: No. [thinking really hard, and then
coming up with something] But… once I went a week without brushing my teeth!
All pirate: Ew! That’s disgusting!
Ryan (M)Purplebeard: Listen up, bucko We’re on our way to the big Pirate gathering
in the big Pirate sea and you a’int going with us and that’s me final word!
Kennedy & ThatcherStowaway: But…but… First Mate: We’ve been practicing
all year for the “Pirates Got Talent, Carribean Crooners Competition and we a’int letting no landlubber like you ruin our chances!
Stowaway: But…but… 11
Wesley (M)First Mate: Arr! Be off with you now before we… Elliot (C ) Make you peel potatoes. Ethan (M) Feed you to the sharks. Braeden (M) Make you swab the deck. Richy (M) Have you mend the nets. Ryan (M) Make you clean the Little Pirates room. Zachary (M) Tie you to the Mast. Armando (D)Pirate Crew: Oooooooooooooooooo! That’s a good one!
Zachary (M):Pirate Crew: Stop that Pirate-business right now or I’ll get the captain!
Now - Belay that talk! It’s time we sail. Throw them from the ship!
Armondo (D)Pirate Crew: Arr! Throw them from the ship!
The pirate crew chases the stowaways off the ship
Kennedy:Stowaway: Wait! Give us a chance!
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Stowaway: I know I can do it!
Tyler: Hey did you hear about the Pirate with 1 eye?
Zachary: Don’t all pirates have 1 eye?
Tyler: No the patch is really a fashion statement. Now about that
Pirate with 1 eye
One bright and sunny day at sea, a bird flew overhead and pooped right in his eye! You might say that you can’t lose and eye from bird poop but you can if you wipe it off with ye hook!
Armondo:Pirate Crew: Move smartly, men! Weigh anchor now and away we sail!
Tyler: I need some help with this anchor!
Elliot:Redbeard: All hands on deck!
Ethan:Orangebeard: Hoist the Jolly Roger!
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White the pirates prepare to sail the stowaway sneaks back on board. *Start music #3 Stowaway Hides MusicArmondo:Pirate Crew: Fee! Fie! Foe! Fay! I smell the blood of a stowaway!
Tyler: Are you sure you don’t smell dinner? The stowaways left the ship – I saw them.
All pirates: [stop and sniff the air] Arr!
Ryan:Purplebeard: I don’t know. I don’t smell anything at all… well, maybe
I smell some of you, but I’m sort of used to that…
All pirates: [turn and face Purplebeard menacingly] Arr!
Richy:Yellowbeard: On second thought, maybe it’s my
allergies. Something does seem a little strange around here.
Braeden:Greenbeard: Shiver me timbers! There’s a stowaway on board!
Aye! We have to find them! 14
Wesley:First Mate: Aye! A stowaway! All pirates: A stowaway!
Ryan:Purplebeard: Find her, ye sea dogs! Find her! All pirates: Arr!
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Scene 3Rachel (M):Bluebeard : Arr! We caught you now, you scurvy dog! Now ye be shark bait for sure!
Riley J. (M)Greenbeard: Aye! Make ‘er walk the plank! Toss ‘er overboard.
Helena:Redbeard: Arr! Feed ‘er to the fish, the bubble-blowing blaggard!
Rachel:Bluebeard: [offended] Hey! Watch your language!
Helena:Redbeard: Oh, sorry. Got carried away, I guess.
Riley O. (D)Orangebeard: Belay that, me hearties.
We can’t be making this decision all by ourselves.
All pirates: [huddle and talk amongst themselves with occasional shoutout]
Lilly (D):Purplebeard: Aye! You’re right! This is a decision for you-know-who.
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All pirates: [gasp… shocked “no”s, “aww”s, etc.]Thatcher:Stowaway: Who? Bethel (D):Yellowbeard: This is a decision for the King of the
High C’s, that’s who!
Kennedy:Stowaway: The King of the High C’s!? Who’s that?
All pirates: What?!?
BethelGreenbeard: You don’t know who the King of the High C’s is?
Thatcher:Stowaway: Um… I’m afraid not.
Riley J.Greenbeard: The King of the High C’s is the
craftiest crooner of the Caribbean coast.
Helena:Redbeard: Aye! He’s the swellest singer in the
swashbuckling sea!
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Rachel:Bluebeard: The tastiest tenor from Tahiti to
Tobago.
Kennedy:Stowaway: The King of the High C’s is a singer?
All pirates: Precisely!
Lilly S.Purplebeard: Ye see, me squiffy, as we tried
explaining, we are sailing to the big Pirate Crewgathering in the big Pirate Crewsea.
Riley O.Orangebeard: We’ve been
practicing all year for the “Pirates Got Talent, Caribbean Crooners Competition because there’s always a talent show, an instrument play-off, and most importantly a singing contest!
Thatcher -Stowaway: A singing contest?
Lilly S.
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Purplebeard: You don’t know anything about pirates, do you?!?
Danielle (D)Pinkbeard: Aye! There’s a lot of talent sailing
about in the seven seas. All the Pirate Crewships get together and put forward their best comedians, jugglers, dancers and singers in the hopes of winning the grand prize!
Thatcher -Stowaway: What’s that?
Danielle - Pinkbeard: Yo, ho, ho! It’s a bottle of… Bethel -Yellowbeard: Sarsaparilla! Kennedy:Stowaway: Blimey!
Helena:Redbeard: Blimey… spoken like a true pirate! Thatcher:
Stowaway: [hopefully] Really?
All pirates: No.
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Stowaway: Can I meet him? Can I really meet the King of the High C’s?
Lilly S.Purplebeard: Meet him you will, you scallywag!
He’ll be the one deciding your fate. And let me warn you, he doesn’t take kindly to stowaways.
Danielle:Pinkbeard: Especially if you can’t carry a tune!
Bethel:Yellowbeard: Here he comes now. It’s the King of
the High C’s . Bella J. (H)Queen: Those rehearsals are really paying off!
Max S. King: How are the preparations for our group number coming?
BellaQueen: You would know if you ever bothered to come to rehearsals.
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You always seem to be getting your “beauty” rest when we are working. I don’t know what you would do without me.
Max: Yes I am lucky to have you and I need my beauty rest – this does
Not happen by itself. Now back to our group number. Show me what you’ve got!
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Scene 4: Max:King: Thank you! Thank you all. I am good, am I not?!?
Jill (D):Pirate Crews: Aye, your majesty!
Brinnay:Pirate Crew: Aye! The very best! I think the King wants more applause, more applause, more applause… arrrrg!
Jill:Pirate Crew: Aye, your majesty! But we have a bit of a problem here.
Bella:Queen: What is it?
Jill:Pirate Crew : Well sir, it seems we have a stowaway on board.
Max:King: A stowaway? Shiver me timbers… that’s not
a problem. Send her bones to Davy Jones!!!
Brinnay:Pirate Crew : Aye sir, but she wants to be a pirate, sir.
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Bella:Queen: Oh, really?!? Jill:Pirate Crew : Blimey, sir. They says that they want to be just like you.
Max:King: Well, sink me! Who wouldn’t?!?
Jill:Pirate Crew : We tried to explain that they couldn’t…
Brinnay:Pirate Crew: We tried to tell them that the world
could only stand but just one of you…
Bella:Queen: Avast! Where is this so-called stowaway?
Jill:Pirate Crew: Here they are sir. Right here.
Max:King: You? You want to be a Pirate just like me?
Caroline (M)Stowaway: More than anything, your highness! More than anything!
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Alina - Stowaway: It’s all we have ever wanted!
Max:King: Ahoy! Ye got to be kidding me! Make them walk the plank!
Alina (H)Stowaway: But sir! I swear I could be a smashing
pirate, if only you’d give me a chance!
Caroline: Stowaway: If you could find it in your heart to let us
be pirates we would not let you down.
Max:King: Oh really? Let me hear you say, “aye”!
Caroline & Alina:Stowaway: Aay, ah, ai, sir!
Bella:Queen: Let me hear you say, “blimey”.
Caroline and AlinaStowaway: Blamey, bleemey, blihmey, sir.
King: Stow it Pirate! Now, let me hear you say, “Arr!” Stowaway: Arr! Bella & Max:
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King & Queen: Not bad. *Move thrones to side
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Scene 5: Stanley (D)Pirate Crew: Hey, Pirates! We’ve got a new joke for
you! [pause to make sure he’s listening]
Carnell (D)Pirate Crew : What does a Pirate say when his
wooden leg gets stuck in the freezer?
Stanley (D)Pirate Crew : I don’t know… what?
Carnell (D)Pirate Crew : Shiver me timbers! Blaine (D)Pirate Crew : Hey, have you heard the one about the
Pirate alphabet? Christian (D)Pirate Crew: Nope… haven’t heard that one…
Blaine (D)Pirate Crew : What’s a pirate’s favorite letter?
Christian (D)Pirate Crew : I don’t know… what?
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Blaine (D)Pirate Crew : RRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!
Christian (D)Pirate Crew : That’s not what I heard… I heard it were the C!
Isaac (D)Pirate Crew : How much did the Pirate pay to get his ears pierced?
[pause and wait for audience] A buck-an-ear! Sarah C. (H)Stowaway: [walking around the stage, trying to be
pirate-y, but failing] Arrg! Arrg!
Ben S. (H)King: No G, No G!
Cole S. (H)Stowaway: Arrr! Arrr!
Ben S. (H)King: More “AH”, less RRR!
Sarah C. & Cole S.Stowaway: Ahhhrrr?
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Ben S.King: Avast! I’ve heard enough! Mark them with a
black spot and throw them in the brig with the rest of the prisoners!
Sarah & ColeStowaway: But! But!
Pirates: To the brig*Start Music #7 To the Brig, Close curtain, bring out prison
scene, move thrones, lights down *Open curtain
Scene 6Kaitlin (H)Prisoner: My, my! What have we here?
Laura (H)Prisoner: Blimey! Looks like a stowaway to me!
Lilly P. (H)Prisoner: What are ye in for, mate?
Cole S.Stowaway: Leave me alone!
Emma (H)Prisoner: [mocking her] Leave me alone…
Aja (H)Prisoner: Now look, there’s no need for that!
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Lindsey (H)Prisoner: Yeah! We all got thrown in this hole for
some reason…
KaitlinPrisoner: [shrieking] The black spot!
LauraPrisoners: [in hushed awe] Oh no… the black spot.
Sarah C.Stowaway: What does it mean?
Lilly P. Prisoner: It means you’re marked – marked for death.
Stowaways: No! Prisoners: Yes! Stowaways: No! Prisoners: Yes! Stowaways: No! Prisoners: Yes! Stowaways: No! Prisoners: Yes! Stowaways: No! Prisoners: Yes!
Emma
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Prisoner: The black spot means when the sun comes up and choir rehearsal is over, there’s no doubt about it…
LindseyPrisoners: You walk the plank.
Cole S. Stowaway: But how can this be? All I wanted was to
be a pirate… a Pirate Crew like them!
Aja Prisoner: Ye should have stayed at home with your mother, mate.
KaitlinPrisoner: Ye ain’t no buckeneer!
LauraPrisoner: Now your hours are numbered for sure!
Lilly P.Prisoner: It won’t be long ‘til you’ll be lyin’ in Davy Jones Locker.
Sarah C.Stowaway: Davy Jones’ Locker? Here I am at sea –
where I’ve always wanted to be. And yet,
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I’ve never felt so lost and alone in my whole life.
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Open Curtain
Scene 7: Ben S. (H)King: Arr… back to rehearsal! Where is that Pirate
Chorus.
BrandonFirst Mate: I think they are down below warming up
their voices.
Ben S.King: I hope they are working on their breath
support! They have to breathe from their scurvy diaphrams!
Brandon (D)First Mate: Aye! And don’t forget the round tones!
Arr! We can’t lose this year - Not as long as we have the King of the High C’s!!!
Ben S.King: [singing an arpeggio, spraying his throat, etc.] Ahhhh…
Brandon:First Mate: Beautiful!
Ben S.:King: [like Elvis] Thank you! Thank you very much!
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Brandon:
First mate: I’ll go round up that Pirate Chorus. *Start music #10 Warmup Music
Close Curtain, Move Thrones
Scene 8: Ashley (CL)Yellowbeard: If ya don’t mind me sayin’ so,
Redbeard… I think you were singing a little flat!
Maleeya (CL)Redbeard: Arr! Who you callin’ flat, ye good for nothing scallywag?!?
Mason (CL)Greenbeard: You were out of tune!
Valerie (CL)Orangebeard: Your diction was deplorable!
Catie S. (CL)Purplebeard: You sing too loud!
Ryder (CL)Bluebeard: Your choreography was sloppy!
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Cole M. (CL)King: [walks on deck, singing arpeggios, oblivious to
everyone else] Ah, ah, ah, ah! Ahhh! [When he gets to the high note, his voice makes a terrible sound]
Kate W. (CL)Queen: Aye, King! Don’t be joking with us! Tomorrow
is the big day!
Ele (CL)Pinkbeard: You can’t be losing your voice now!
AshleyYellowbeard: You’re our ticket to first prize.
Cole M. King: [holding his throat, barely able to make a sound] Laryngitis!
All: What?
Cole M. King: [holding his throat, barely able to make a sound] Laryngitis!
All: What?
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Kate W. Queen: He’s got laryngitis, ye, blaggards! How many
times do I have to tell you?
All: Blimey!
Mason Greenbeard: What’re we gonna do?
RyderBluebeard: Aye! What are we gonna do?
ElePinkbeard: Arr! There goes first prize! Yo, ho, ho, there goes our bottle of… All: Sasparilla!
Abby G. (M)Stowaway: [singing] Lost at sea, lost at sea, tell me
where I’m meant to be… RyderBluebeard: What was that?
Levi S. (H)Stowaway: [singing] Hear my plea, set me free,
‘cause I’m lost, I’m lost at sea…
Nur (CL)Whitebeard: Why, that’s the most beautiful voice I’ve ever heard.
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Catie S.Purplebeard: Aye! And it’s coming from the brig.
MaleeyaRedbeard: The brig? Find out who it is?
ValerieOrangebeard: This might be the break we need! [all
tiptoe towards the brig]
NurWhitebeard: Aha and ahoy! It’s the stowaway.
AshleyYellowbeard: Tell me, stowaway, was it you that we
heard singing so melodiously?
Abby G.Stowaway: Aye, sir! It was I! I guess I wasn’t very
pirate-y, but I meant no disrespect!
MaleeyaRedbeard: Disrespect? That’s the best singing we’ve
ever heard on this ship!
Cole M.King: [stomps his feet and clears his throat]
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AshleyYellowbeard: Aye, mate! Like Blackbeard said, that’s
the best singing we’ve ever heard on this ship!
King: [stomps his feet and clears his throat, crossing arms in disgust]
NurWhitebeard: Except the King of course.
Mason Greenbeard: Aye! Now you must go with us to the
Carribean Crooners Contest! With your help we can win!
Levi S.Stowaway: Do yourelly thing so? Do you really think I
can help you win?
Catie S.Purplebeard: There’s only one way to find out! Gentlemen… Ladies…
All pirates: [singing] Do, re, mi, fa, so, la, ti…
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Stowaway: [singing] Do All: Perfect!
Cole M.King: [croaking] Perfect!
Abby G.Stowaway: Wow! Does that mean we get to be a full-
blown pirates, just like you?
ValerieOrangebeard: Well now, I don’t know about that.
Levi s.Stowaway: No pirate, no sing!
Pinkbeard: Pirates! Pirate friends… join me in a huddle. [all pirates join in a huddle, gesturing and talking.] One! Two! Three! Break!
MaleeyaRedbeard: After much discussion, we have decided to
ask you a few pertinent questions.
Abby Stowaway: Ask away!
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ElePinkbeard: Do ye promise to never be lily-livered or
ever say “wow” again? LeviStowaway: Wow! I mean, aye, we sure do!
CatiePurplebeard: Do you swear that you’ll honor the Pirate flag?
AbbyStowaway: Aye, aye, captain!
MasonGreenbeard: Do you swear to be the heartiest,
swashbuckling-est buccaneer ever to sail the seven seas?
AbbyStowaway: ‘Til me dying days!
Cole M.King: Then by the powers vested in me, I proudly pronounce you a full-on, blow-me-down, shiver-me-timbers …Kate:Queen: Oh brother! You are know officially Pirates of the seven seas! Abby: Hip, hip
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All: Hooray! Levi: Hip, hip All: Hooray! Cole & Kate: Hip, hip All: Hooray!*Start Music #12 Pirates All Are We
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