W"The Captain Is Drunk" is a song by American singer-songwriter Jack Johnson. The song was released as a single on December 4, 2020, and premiered on Rolling Stone the day before. The song was originally teased in an Instagram post by Johnson about voting in September 2020. The cover art is designed by Jeff Canham, who also made the cover for This Warm December Vol. III as well as Johnson's 2018 Santa Barbara Bowl Benefit concert for the 2018 California wildfires.
W"The Ballad of Captain Kidd" is an English song about Captain William Kidd, who was executed for piracy in London on May 23, 1701. It is listed as number 1900 in the Roud Folk Song Index.
W"Chasing Pirates" is the first single by American singer Norah Jones from her fourth album, The Fall. It was released exclusively to iTunes on Tuesday, October 13, 2009. The song also had its North American radio station premiere on the defunct 97.3 EZ Rock, now CHBM, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada on October 9, 2009. The song went top ten in Japan, The Netherlands and Belgium. In the US, "Chasing Pirates" peaked at No. 13 on Hot Adult Contemporary Tracks and No. 7 on Jazz Songs.
WThe George Aloe and the Sweepstake is Child ballad 285. In 1595, a ballad was entered into the Stationers' Register with the note that it was to be sung to the tune of The George Aloe and the Sweepstake. The ballad tells of the battles with a pirate ship. Several variations of the ballad exist.
W"Jack Sparrow" is a song by American comedy troupe The Lonely Island featuring singer-songwriter Michael Bolton. The song and music video debuted on Saturday Night Live as an SNL Digital Short on May 7, 2011. The plot follows the troupe inviting Bolton to work on a new hip hop track, in which the members rap about meeting at a club and taking women home. Bolton ruins the group's song by instead singing choruses about the Pirates of the Caribbean film series and its primary protagonist Captain Jack Sparrow, but also with references to Forrest Gump, Erin Brockovich, Scarface and Jerry Maguire.
W"Merck toch hoe sterck" is a Dutch war song and sea shanty, written around 1626 by Adriaen Valerius. The music is based on an Elizabethan lute song written by Thomas Campion in 1606.
WLazyTown is an Icelandic children's comedy television series. It was created by Magnús Scheving, an aerobics champion who also plays the character Sportacus, and it is based upon his Icelandic stage plays Áfram Latibær! and Glanni Glæpur í Latabæ.