Fifteen men on the Dead Man's chest
Drink and the Devil had done for the rest
The mate was fixed with the bo'sun's pike
And the bo'sun brained with a marlin spike
Cookie'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 boozin' den
Yo Ho Ho and a bottle of rum
Fifteen men of the whole ship's list
Dead and bed**ned and the rest gone whist
The skipper lay with his nob in gore
Where the scullion's axe his cheek had shore
And the scullion he'd been stabbed times four
And there they lay
And the soggy skies
Dripped all day long up staring eyes
By murk sunset and by foul sunrise
Yo Ho Ho and a bottle of rum
Fifteen men of 'em stiff and stark
Ten of the crew with a murder mark
'Twas a cutlass swipe or an ounce of lead
Or a yawning hole in a battered head
And the scupper's a glut with a rotting red
And there they lay
Aye
D**n me eyes
Their lookouts clapped on Paradise
And their souls gone just contrariwise
Yo Ho Ho and a bottle of rum
Fifteen men of 'em good and true
Every man jack could 'a sailed with Old Pew
There was just no chest full of Spanish gold
With a ton of plate in the middle hold
The cabins a riot of loot untold
And there they lay that took the plum
With sightless glare and 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 stern light screen
Charting
No doubt
Where a woman had been
A flimsy shift on a bunkered cot
With a thin dirk slot through the bosom spot
And the lace stiff dry with a purplish blot
Oh
Was she a wench
Some shuddering maid
That dared the knife and took the blade
By God
She was tough for a plucky jade
Yo Ho Ho and a bottle of rum
Fifteen men on the 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
Wrapped them all in the mainsail tight
Twice ten turns of a hawser's bight
And we heaved them over and out of sight
With a yo heave ho and a fare ye well
A sudden plunge in a sullen swell
Ten fathoms deep on the road to hell
Yo Ho Ho and a bottle of rum
