Will Oldham is one of the many supporters of Peter Willcox, the captain of the Greenpeace ship that was seized by Russia's Federal Security Service this fall following peaceful protests of an offshore oil rig. Oldham has made a new version of his song "Black Captain" from Wolfroy Goes to Town in support of Willcox.
Willcox, who was originally charged with piracy (and later, "hooliganism"), was recently granted bail and released from detainment, but is being held in Russia before his trial in February.
Read the new lyrics to the song below, followed by footage of Oldham performing the new version.
"Black Captain (For Peter Willcox)":
When he’d disappeared into hazard I’d feared
I was now meant to sail on my own
There is a place on the open sea
You will say it is like any other
It has an air of importance to me
As it waits for the hull of my brother
It had been my thought that the power he got
Couldn’t be there without what I gave him
And now I find a good part of my mind
Will be worthless unless I help save him
He ain’t here ain’t here
I can’t handle this lack
And now
I
Want my captain back
via Carrie Battan
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