Hoist the Colours (song)

Hoist the Colours was a sea shanty known by pirates across the Seven Seas. It related to the hoisting of a pirate's flag, though it was also used as a call to arms for the members of the Brethren Court.

Hoist the Colours was sung by assembled men and women sentanced for execution by the East India Trading Company at Fort Charles in Port Royal, after a boy, facing the gallows, began singing while holding a piece of eight. The entire assembly took up the cue, which resonated through the coin. Captain Sao Feng heard the reverberations through a coin given to him by Hector Barbossa in Singapore, and the entire Brethren Court united at Shipwreck Cove because of it.

Appearances

 * Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End