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Yo
Ho Ho And A Bottle Of Rum
written by: Robert Lewis Stevenson 1881
and
more lyrics added by Young Ewing Allison 1891
Fifteen
men on a dead man’s chest
Yo
ho ho and a bottle of rum
Drink
and the devil be done for the rest
Yo
ho ho and a bottle of rum
The
mate was fixed by the bos’n’s pike
The
bos’n’ brained with a markin spike 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 a whole ship’s list
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
he lay and the soggy skies
Dripped
all day in up-staring eyes at
Murk
sunset and at foul sur-prise
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 and ounce of lead or a
Dawning
hole in a battered head
and
the scuppers glut with a yawning red and
There
they lay aye damn my eyes
All
lookouts clapped on par - a - dise all
Souls
bound just con – tra – ri - wise
Yo
ho ho and a bottle of rum
Fifteen
men of ‘em good and true
Yo
ho ho and a bottle of rum
Every
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 with stuff un told As
They
lay there that had took the plum
With
a 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 of 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 hausers bight
And
we heaved ‘em over and out of sight with a
Yo
heave ho and fare you well
And
a sullen plunge in a sullen swell
Ten
fathoms deep on the road to hell
Yo
ho ho and a bottle of rum
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