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Jonas Psalter

This version of Jonas Psalter was released by Styx in 1974.

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When Captain Jonas Psalter
Sailed his ship to sea
Anne Bonny kept him company

The skull and crossbones flew
Above the ocean blue
The captain’s men where a pirate’s crew

The ships they sought to take
Were of the Spanish Main
A gift from Ferdinand of Spain

And though you rob and kill to find your dream
Your crimes are hardly what they seem

Tortuga held the treasure of a thousand kings
So Jonas planned to steal everything

Two hundred men stood guard
Around the fortune’s nest
But Psalter’s steel slew all the rest

And when the smoke had cleared
And bloody bodies lay
Everyone could hear the minstrel play

Woo woo Jonas Psalter
You’ve captured every prize
There is to dream of in one life

And so we wonder why
We found you in your bed
With that bullet in your head

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The lyrics for Jonas Psalter are defined as the words making up the song released by Styx in 1974. It also includes the verses and words used by the background chorus in the song. Like many hit songs, the lyrics to Jonas Psalter have different meanings to different people. While it is clear in some of the lyrics what the artist is trying to really say, only Styx and those working with them know all of the meanings behind all of the lyrics to their songs.

Some folks are interested in word and phrase etymology. It is easy to understand the lyrics to Jonas Psalter by Styx if you think through it. The word "lyric" itself derives from the Latin word lyricus, with the actual English word lyrics applied to the definition "words set to music" listed in Stainer and Barrett's 1876 Dictionary of Musical Terms. Continuing the chain, the Latin word lyricus derives from the Greek word λυρικός or lyrikós. This somewhat means "poetry accompanied by the lyre" or "words set to music." You can easily see that by looking at the background of the word lyric, that the "lyrics to Jonas Psalter" means the words set to the music of Jonas Psalter, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Styx. The singular form "lyric" is still used to mean the complete words to a song. However, the singular form lyric is also commonly used to refer to a specific line (or phrase) within a song's lyrics. Hence, by this analysis of word structure, you could say that the lyric to Jonas Psalter and the lyrics to Jonas Psalter are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Styx who came here looking just for the lyrics to Jonas Psalter, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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