Sea Shanties - Derelict/Yo, Ho, Ho, and a Bottle of Rum [complete]

Fifteen men on a dead man's chest

Yo-ho-ho and a bottle of rum!

Drink and the devil be done for the rest

Yo-ho-ho and a bottle of rum!

The mate was fixed by the bosun's pike

The bosun brained with a marlinspike

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 his cheek had shore

And the scullion he was stabbed times four

And there they lay, and the soggy skies

Dripped down in up-staring eyes

In murk sunset and 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!

Twas a 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

Looking up at paradise

All souls bound just contrariwise

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 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!

More was seen through a sternlight screen...

Yo-ho-ho and a bottle of rum

Chartings undoubt where a woman had been

Yo-ho-ho and a bottle of rum!

'Twas a flimsy shift on a bunker cot

With a dirk slit sheer through the bosom spot

And the lace stiff dry in a purplish blot

Oh was she wench or some shudderin' maid

That dared the knife and took the blade

By God! she had stuff for a plucky jade

Yo-ho-ho and a bottle of rum!

Fifteen men on a dead man's chest

Yo-ho-ho and a bottle of rum!

Drink and the devil had done for the rest

Yo-ho-ho and a bottle of rum!

We wrapped 'em all in a mains'l tight

With twice 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 swell

Ten fathoms deep on the road to hell,

Yo-ho-ho and a bottle of rum!

• Artist:Sea Shanties