1714 that was the year  The Spanish fleet ran out of luck  The weather was stormy  The sea was splashing  Furious fighting and thunderstruck  Three hundred men  Fighting hand in hand  Abandonment or raid  Tons of "pieces of eight"  The flotilla was driven down to the reefs  The wooden hulls of the vessels were cracked  300.000 pieces of eight  The fleet of that year  Was totally wrecked  Three hundred men  Fighting hand in hand  Abandonment or raid  Tons of "pieces of eight"  The viceroy commander to furnish a squad  60 soldiers to dreg up the plate  Tool all their salvage to a small camp ashore  Lack of suspicion no thought of a raid  Jennings came up with a hazardous plan  The Spanish garrison was taken by guise  Three sailing vessels, three hundred men  300 000 their glittering prize  Three hundred men  Fighting hand in hand  Abandonment or raid  Tons of "pieces of eight"  Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh,  The Spanish plate hauled off by raid  Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh,  Jennings' trick a painful kick  During their escape they happened to spy  A gorgeous Spanish merchant ship  "In for a penny, in for a pound"  They got them in their steely grip  And several thousand "pieces of eight"  To fill their ships up to the deck  Jennings' fleet sailed out to sea  No one ever found his track  Three hundred men  Fighting hand in hand  Abandonment or raid  Tons of "pieces of eight"  Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh,  The Spanish plate hauled off by raid  Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh,  Jennings' trick a painful kick  Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh,  impudent tries will win the price  Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh,  no soldier pack will fund his track