Pirates and Poets
# Pirates and Poets

Pirates and Poets is an album by the American singer-songwriter Bertie Higgins, released in 1983. The first single was ""When You Fall in Love (Like I Fell in Love with You)".

Roy Orbison sang on "Leah". The CD version of the album includes Higgins's hit single Key Largo as a bonus track.

## Critical reception

The Philadelphia Inquirer called Higgins "just about the most weepy, sentimental, insufferable singer-songwriter in existence," and ironically deemed the album, "in its own way, a demented masterpiece."

## Track listing

* "As Time Goes By" (0:45)
* "Pirates and Poets" (3:11)
* "When You Fall in Love (Like I Fell in Love with You)" (3:36)
* "Leah" (3:28)
* "Under a Blue Moon" (3:55)
* "Tokyo Joe" (3:25)
* "Beneath the Island Light" (4:04)
* "Only Yesterday" (3:50)
* "Marianna" (4:09)
* "Pleasure Pier" (3:28)
* "Never Looking Back" (7:18)
* "As Time Goes By (Reprise)" (1:15)
