Can someone help me find this song please

[piratemaniac]

Can anyone send me a link of the song "fifteen men on a dead man's chest" with someone signing it please? :)

[Isabella]

I couldn't find a MP3. The suggestion I have is buying Treasure Island to get it.

I found the lyrics tho, the first portion is Stevenson, then some of the ending lyrics are added by Young Ewing Allison a few years later.

1. 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.

2. Fifteen men of 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 nob 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.

3. 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.

4. Fifteen men of 'em good and true - '

Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum!

Ev'ry man jack 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 shared all by the rule of thumb,

Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum!

5. More was seen through a sternlight screen...

Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum

Chartings undoubt where a woman had been

Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum.

'Twas a flimsy shift on a bunker cot

With a dirk slit sheer through the bosom spot

And the lace stiff dry in a purplish blot

Oh was she wench or some shudderin' maid

That dared the knife and took the blade

By God! she had stuff for a plucky jade

Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum.

6. 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 a sudden plunge in the sullen swell

Ten fathoms deep on the road to hell,

Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum!

[piratemaniac]

well.. thanks for trying man.. i appreciate it

[DurtyLillie]

Lovely dirge of a shany mate....Nice holiday song....

Mine is..."15 men on a dead men's chest ,yo ho ho and a bottle of rum, rob the rich and kill the rest, yo ho ho and a bottle of rum" yep many ways to sing it... we do a monthly sea shanty meet up til lately and then there's a portside pub that also gets together fer singin...

...why you want to sign this one mate?

best regards I mean ARGH, D.L.

[Reddrake]

Ahoy thar Piratemanic. That thar song is sung by numerous bands each with slightly different lyrics. A few examples can be found on : THE CORSAIRS -the black disc; THE BILGEPUMPS -Greatest hits Vol. VIII (they refer ta it as 'The Derelict') ; JOLLY ROGERS - Pirates' Gold (also 'The Derelict').

I hope that might help ye a little.

[crimson corsair]

the corsairs recorded this song.you can get the cd at there website .the song is on there BLACK album.

The corsairs play at alot of ren fairs around the U.S there arwe afew other good song on the album too