1714 that was the year   The Spanish fleet ran out of luck   The weather was stormy   The sea was lashing, furious   Lightning 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 commanded   To furnish a squad   60 soldiers to dreg up the plate   Fool 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 prize   Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh   No soldier pack will find his track