He goes on about a Mountie who attempts to capture him, but fails and loses his job, and proceeds to join the crew.

[4] Hoja, a Canadian a cappella group, covered the song on their album, Have You Herd?

The Longest Johns covered the song as "The Last Bristolian Pirate", with some of the lyrics and geographical references changed to British equivalents along the River Severn.

The Scottish metal band Alestorm covered the song on their 2024 EP Voyage of the Dead Maurader.

The song is often played during the "third quarter stretch" at the Regina home games of the Canadian Football League's Saskatchewan Roughriders,[5] using a shortened loop highlighting the lyric "on Regina's mighty shores";[6] in reality, the closest the Saskatchewan river system gets to Regina is Lake Diefenbaker, a bifurcation lake on the South Saskatchewan River, roughly 140 kilometres (87 mi) to their west-northwest, though the sentiment of the Roughriders, like the general fun of the song's references to the fearful pirates, is an equally lighthearted comparison.