| Fifteen men on a dead man’s chest.
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| (Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum.)
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| Drink and the devil had done for the rest
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| (With a Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum.)
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| (Bottle of rum.)
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| (Bottle of rum.)
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| The mate was fixed by the bosun’s pike
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| The bosun brained with a marlinspike
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| And cookey’s throat was marked belike
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| It had been gripped by fingers ten;
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| And there they lay, all good dead men
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| Like break o’day in a boozing ken.
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| (Bottle of rum.)
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| (Bottle of rum.)
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| Fifteen men of 'em good and true
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| (Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum.)
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| Ev’ry man jack could ha' sailed with Old Pew,
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| (With a Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum.)
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| (Bottle of rum.)
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| (Bottle of rum.)
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| There was chest on chest of Spanish gold
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| With a ton of plate in the middle hold
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| And the cabins riot of stuff untold,
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| And they lay there that took the plum
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| With sightless glare and their lips struck dumb
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| While we shared all by the rule of thumb,
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| (Bottle of rum.)
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| (Bottle of rum.)
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| Fifteen men on a dead man’s chest.
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| (Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum.)
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| Drink and the devil had done for the rest
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| (With a Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum.)
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| (Bottle of rum.)
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| (Bottle of rum.)
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| We wrapped 'em all in a mains’l tight
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| With twice ten turns of a hawser’s bight
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| And we heaved 'em over and out of sight,
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| With a Yo-Heave-Ho! |
| and a fare-you-well
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| And a sudden plunge in the sullen swell
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| Ten fathoms deep on the road to hell
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| (Bottle of rum.)
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| (Bottle of rum.) |