Captain Kidd (song)

"The Ballad of Captain Kidd" (or simply, "Captain Kidd") is an English song about Captain William Kidd, who was executed for piracy in London on May 23, 1701.

The song was printed in Britain in 1701, and it traveled to the colonies "almost immediately".

Washington Irving's 1824 work Tales of a Traveller makes mention of the song:

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