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Elizabeth "Red Beth" Cope

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The Ballad of Red Beth

A popular shanty can be heard down at the Anathema Arms

Lyrics

Lyrics

Come hear the tale of Elizabeth Cope
Yo ho, Red Beth
Handy with charts and hauling a rope
Raise up her flag, or come face your death

She used to sail for that ol' pirate John
Yo ho, Red Beth
They used to be friends but now he's long gone
Raise up her flag, or come face your death

Red Beth, Queen of the Pirates
Red Beth, Lord of the Sea
Traded in treasurer for treasure
Don't trust a pirate with accountancy


She came face to face, with the Yattermaine
Yo ho, Red Beth
Left them locked up with a ball and a chain
Raise up her flag, or come face your death

She sunk every ship in Abizyl Bay
Yo ho, Red Beth
Ne’er was a fight from which she shied away
Raise up her flag, or come face your death

Red Beth, Queen of the Pirates
Red Beth, Lord of the Sea
Traded in treasurer for treasure
Don't trust a pirate with accountancy


Sailed her way up the Tenebrific Coast
Yo ho, Red Beth
Robbed every skeleton, pirate and ghost
Raise up her flag, or come face your death

She stole the SANAs and set them all free
Yo ho, Red Beth
All that remains is this last melody
Raise up her flag, or come face your death

Red Beth, Queen of the Pirates
Red Beth, Lord of the Sea
Traded in treasurer for treasure
Don't trust a pirate with accountancy


The Modern Pirate

[…] Of course it many of the trappings of Pirates are commonly associated to Zoe Buckley's epic “The Blood Red Seas”, best known as a film, but was actually a play that ran 2 years earlier, also staring Buckley in the role of the infamous Pirate Captain “Red”, as she's refered to in the text. However in an intereview Buckley gave at the premier of the play, she revealed the character is largely based on a mix of real historic pirates, whom she researched extensively during the show's production.

Examining the sources further that she mentions in one televised interview, we can see some of the other tropes we also know today. The common use of the colour red, particularly in flag designs, comes directly from “Captain Cope”, the most well known pirate of the era. At the the time a wide variety colours (and indeed designs) were used in flags, with only Cope's crew keeping Red as the primary motif.

Cope is also thought to have inspired the potrayal of Pirates sailing in fleets, rather than just inidividual ships, another facet again popularised by Buckley's play[…]

From “Avast: A History Of Media Depictions of Piracy in Nequam”

Ghost Stories

“It was a dark and stormy night, and the thick fog rolled across the sea. The lonely night watch stood on deck, looking out across the waves. The, out of the mist, a ship emerged, heading straight for them. But this was no ordinary ship - no, this was a ghost ship. And standing at the bow of the ship was an accountant…”

“An accountant?! What kind of nonsense ghost story is this”

“Hey don't blame me, I didn't make it up. That's just how the story goes, alright? So, as I was saying before I was so rudely interrupted, there was a ghost ship, and on the deck stood an accountant…”