The Derelict (15 Men on a Dead Man's Chest) (Yo Ho Ho and a Bottle of Rum)

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Arrangement & Performed by: Capt'n Tor & The Naer-Do-Well Cads - Pirate Invasion
Drums: Capt'n Tor
Fiddle: Gwenyvarr Blackshades Lovelocket
Guitar: Capt'n Tor
Boot Stomping: Capt'n Tor
Chains: Captain Tor
Lead Vocal: Capt'n Tor
Back Up Vocals: Mistress Gwenyvarr Blackshades Lovelocket, Miss Aureana
Sound Effects: Capt'n Tor
Sound Engineer: Pat Johnson
Recorded at Pat Johnson's 'Patunes Studio'
Charleston Lake, Ontario www.patjohnson.ca
February 2014
Capt'n Tor plays the double kick drum, the guitar, and sings all at the same time in this dark and macabre, yet rollicking tune!
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Capt'n Tor & the Naer-Do-Well Cads
The Derelict (15 Men On a Deadman's Chest)
lyrics:
Come on mates!
Get your backs into it
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 on the 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 head 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 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 all shared 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 we watched them sink as the ships bell tolled.
What do yo think we did next mate?
After we drowned that bloody scurvy mess overboard?
Well I tell ya!
We all shared by the rule of thumb
Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum.

[@captntorthenaer-do-wellcad3191]

Nicely done mate!

[@jamess.299]

This version is missing a verse.

[@hrebs]

they are mostly kid friendly so they may have cut it for that reason