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 bedamned 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 bore the murder mark

'Twas a cutlass swipe or an ounce of lead,

Or a yawning hole in a battered head,

wrapped
woman
where
untold
times
tight
throat
tough
there
sunset
sullen
struck
stiff
stark
staring
spike
spanish
soggy
whole
skies
shuddering
wench
swell
shift
shared
fathoms
thumb
dripped
shore
every
scullion
cheek
purplish
drink
dared
souls
break
while
their
plucky
sunrise
sightless
cutlass
gripped
mainsail
turns
flimsy
lookouts
marlin
blade
middle
sudden
stabbed
bight
chest
bosom
glare
battered
bottle
fifteen
charting
clapped
cabins
light
brained
devil
fingers
through
fixed
yawning
rotting
ounce
going
heave
heaved
doubt
knife
swipe
marked
screen
murder
sight
paradise
twice
skipper
plate
plunge
stern
could
sailed

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