It was long after midnight, as I rode through the crowd
Singing snatches of ballads and thinking out loud
I'd spent all my money //
So I boarded a ship with a skeleton crew
The captain // as we // the land
For we'd made the same voyage thousands of times
I'd seen him before, a terrible man
// up in New Amsterdam
He said come on aboard and gamble your soul
// sheath and a hardy good //
With a ghost at the wheel and a barrel of brew
Will you come on a ship with a skeleton crew?
The // was insane, so much the man drank
// local drunk tank
Nobody to blame, nobody to thank
// walking the plank
There was only the sound of the clip of the sails
// fairy tale moonbeam that danced on the rails
// up in the stars
So we rode with the wind, all over the sea
A skeleton crew and a black jamboree
‘til round about dawn came a cry ‘mutiny'
// waiting for me
Come on aboard and gamble your soul
// sheath and a hardy good //
With a ghost at the wheel and a barrel of brew
Will you come on a ship with a skeleton crew?
I watched as a mage came staggering by and I went to the captain
// LEND ME YOUR EYES
If you don't turn about, you're all gonna die
Well make this your casket sure as I'm alive
The captain stood up, with a // frown
// by my scar, as he stared his men down
By the hangman above and the mermaid below
I've seen many more midnights than you'll ever know
And it seems to me, there's a list to this //
And he stared up the boat and the navy did too
At the weathervane figure with a privileged view
// spirit departed
Till the sun kissed the sky and the moonlight shone like a skeletons eye
Come on aboard and gamble your soul
// sheath and a hardy good //
With a ghost at the wheel and a barrel of brew
Will you come on a ship with a skeleton crew?
Come on aboard and gamble your soul
// sheath and a hardy good //
With a ghost at the wheel and a barrel of brew
Will you come on a ship with a skeleton crew?

INVIA LE CORREZIONI