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Abney Park
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Fifteen men on the dead man's chest
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Drink and the devil had done for the rest.
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The mate was fixed with the bosun's pike
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and the bosun brained with a marlin-spike.
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Cookie's throat was marked belike
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It had been clutched 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 den
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Yo-ho-ho and a bottle of rum!
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Fifteen men of the whole ship's list
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Dead and bedamned and the rest gone whist
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The skipper lay with his nob in gore
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Where the scullion's axe his cheek had shore,
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And the scullion he'd been stabbed times four
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And there they lay, and the soggy skies
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Dripped all day long up staring eyes
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By murk sunset and by foul sunrise--
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Yo-Ho-Ho and a bottle of rum!
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Fifteen men of 'em stiff and stark
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Ten of the crew bore the murder mark
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'Twas a cutlass swipe or an ounce of lead,
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Or a yawning hole in a battered head,
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And the scuppers glut of a rotting red.
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And there they lay, aye, damn my eyes,
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Their lookouts clapped on Paradise,
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And their souls bound just contrariwise--
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Yo-Ho-Ho and a bottle of rum!
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Fifteen men of 'em good and true
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Every man jack could 'a sailed with Old Pew
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There was chest on chest full of Spanish gold,
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And a ton of plate in the middle hold,
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And the cabins riot with loot untold--
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And there they lay that had took the plum,
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With sightless glare and lips struck dumb,
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While we shared all by the rule o' thumb--
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Yo-Ho-Ho and a bottle of rum!
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More was seen through the stern light screen
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Charting, no doubt, where a woman had been
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A flimsy shift on a bunker cot
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With a thin dirk slot through the bosom spot
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And the lace stiff dry with a purplish blot--
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Oh, was she a wench, some shuddering maid--
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That dared the knife and took the blade--
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By God, she was tough for a plucky jade--
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Yo-Ho-Ho and a bottle of rum!
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Fifteen men on the 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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Yo-Ho-Ho and a bottle of rum!
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We wrapped them all in a mainsail tight,
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With twice ten turns of 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-ye-well,
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A sudden plunge in a sullen swell.
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Ten fathoms deep on the road to hell--
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Yo-Ho-Ho and a bottle of rum!
Abney Park - The Derelict
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