Yearlong Song Challenge, Day 51: Pat

Prompt: "Your favorite Disney song"

Selected by Pat

"A Professional Pirate"

Long John Silver (Tim Curry) and the Pirates

Muppet Treasure Island: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack, 1996

Let's not get bogged down in what properly constitutes a "Disney song." There's enough controversy on the Internet already. This movie was produced by Walt Disney Pictures. Good enough for me.

Let's instead focus on how good this fucking song is. It's stirring, its lyrics are about the moral complexity of robbery on the high season, and it features World Heritage Person Tim Curry. 

For more than a decade, my wife, my sister, Taco, and I have had a running joke / plan to do a group costume called "The Curry-osity Carnival," where each of us goes as a different Tim Curry character. I called dibs on Long John Silver around 2013. We are always accepting applications.