Song information On this page you can read the lyrics of the song The Derelict , by - Abney Park. Release date: 30.11.2009
Song language: English
The Derelict |
| 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 with a murder mark |
| 'Twas a cutlass swipe or an ounce of lead |
| Or a yawning hole in a battered head |
| And the scupper’s a-glut with a rotting red |
| And there they lay, aye, damn me eyes |
| Their lookouts clapped on Paradise |
| And their souls gone just as contrariwise-- |
| Yo-Ho-Ho and a bottle of rum! |
| Fifteen men of 'em good and true |
| Every man-jack could 'a sailed with Old Pew |
| There was just no chest full of Spanish gold |
| With a ton of plate in the middle hold |
| The cabins a riot of loot untold-- |
| And there they lay that took the plum |
| With sightless glare and lips struck dumb |
| While we shared all by the rule of thumb-- |
| Yo-Ho-Ho and a bottle of rum! |
| More was seen through a stern light screen |
| Charting, no doubt, where a woman had been |
| A flimsy shift on a bunkered cot |
| With a thin dirk slot through the bosom spot |
| And the lace stiff dry with a purplish blot-- |
| Oh, was she a wench, some shuddering maid |
| That dared the knife and took the blade |
| By God, she was tough for a plucky jade-- |
| Yo-Ho-Ho and a bottle of rum! |
| Fifteen men on the 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! |
| Wrapped them all in the mainsail tight |
| Twice ten turns of a hawser’s bight |
| And we heaved them over and out of sight |
| With a yo-heave-ho and a fare-ye-well |
| A sudden plunge in a sullen swell |
| Ten fathoms deep on the road to hell-- |
| Yo-Ho-Ho and a bottle of rum! |