Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum!
Fifteen men on a deadman's chest
Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum
Drink and the devil had done with the rest
Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum
The mate was fixed by the bosun's pike
The bosun brained with a marlinespike
And cookey's throat was marked belike
It had been gripped by fingers ten
And there they lay, all good dead men
Like break o'day in a boozing ken
Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum!
Fifteen men of the whole ship's list
Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum
Dead and be damned and the rest gone whist
Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum
The skipper lay with his nob in gore
Where the scullion's axe in his cheek had shore
And the scullion he was stabbed four times four
And there they lay, and the soggy skies
Dripped all day long in up-staring eyes
At murk sunset and at foul sunrise
Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum!
Fifteen men of 'em stiff and stark
Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum
Ten of the crew had the murder mark
Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum
There was 'cutlass swipe or an ounce of lead
Or a yawing hole in a battered head
And the scuppers' glut with a rotting red
And there they lay, aye, damn my eyes
All lookouts clapped on paradise
All souls bound just contrarywise
Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum!
Fifteen men of 'em good and true
Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum
Ev'ry man jack could ha' sailed with Old Pew,
Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum
There was chest on chest of Spanish gold
With a ton of plate in the middle hold
And the cabins riot of stuff untold,
And they lay there that had took the plum
With sightless glare and their lips struck dumb
While we shared all by the rule of thumb,
Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum!
Fifteen men on a deadman's chest
Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum
Drink and the devil had done with the rest
Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum
We wrapped 'em all in a mains'l tight
With thice ten turns of a hawser's bight
And we heaved 'em over and out of sight
With a Yo-heave-ho! and a fare-you-well!
And a sudden plunge in the sullen swwell
Ten fathoms deep on the road to hell
Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum!

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