Yo Ho Ho And a Bottle of Rum

Lyrics to 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 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 yawning hole