yo, ho, ho (and a bottle of rum!) - george blais, jeff michaels lyrics
[chorus 1]
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!
[verse 1]
the mate was fixed by a bosun’s pike
the bosun brained by a marlinspike
and cookey’s throat was marked belike
clutched by fingers ten
and there they lay
at the break of day
all, good dead men
yo, ho, ho, and a bottle of rum!
[chorus 2]
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!
[verse 2]
twas a cutlass swipe or an ounce of lead
a gaping hole in a battered head
to leave the deck a rotting red
under darkened skies!
and there they lay
before my eyes
story in their demise
yo, ho, ho, and a bottle of rum!
[chorus 3 (sung by “bill bones”)]
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!
[verse 3 (sung by “bill bones”)]
we’ll wrap them all in a mainsail tight
with a “yo, heave ho!” and all our might
we heave them over, out of sight
to the sea below
and there they lay
all alone
to rest with davy jones
yo, ho, ho, and a bottle of rum!
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