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Thread #11886   Message #90503
Posted By: Barbara
28-Jun-99 - 07:13 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: 15 Men on a Dead Man's Cruise?
Subject: RE: 15 Men on a Dead Man's Cruise
This one?

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.

The rest of it is in the database under Yo Ho Ho. Enter either that phrase or [dead man's] in brackets in the box upper right and the song will appear.
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Barbara