Discover the story of the song > The Coast of High Barbary – the jolly rogers

The song is about a ship sailing along the coast of High Barbary. They come across a man-o-war ship and ask if they are a pirate, but the man-o-war denies it. They exchange some letters and then the two ships start to fight. The man-o-war eventually destroys the pirate ship and the pirates ask for mercy, but instead, the man-o-war sinks their ship and kills them all.