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Lyrics for Yo Ho Ho by Unknown:
| | | Artist: | Unknown |
| | Album: | Unknown | | Track: | Yo Ho Ho | | | | Date Added: | 18/10/2007 | | Views: | 239 | | | | Lyrics: | YO HO HO
(Allison and Waller)
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.
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 'em stiff and stark
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 contrawise
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!
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!
A flimsy girl on a bunker cot
With a dirk slit sheer through the bosom
spot
And the lace stiff dry in a purplish rot
Oh was she wench or was she jade
Or was
she just a shuddering maid?
She dared the knife and she took the blade
Yo ho ho and a
bottle of rum.
Note: From a 1901 Broadway musical. Inspired by quatrain
in
Stevenson's Treasure Island. Reportedly, "Dead Man's
Chest" was a Caribbean island
rendezvous of buccaneers
and smugglers. Last verse supplied by JY, other printed in
Songs of the Navy, USNA RG
@sailor @pirate @death
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YOHOHO
JY, RG
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