The Dead Men's Song

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Genres: Nonfiction

excerpt from the book..A Reminiscence of "Treasure Island"YOUNG E. ALLISON_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!_ (_Cap'n Billy Bones his song._)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!The mate was fixed by the bos'n's pike,The bos'n brained with a marlinspikeAnd Cookey's throat was marked belike

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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!

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