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 (With a Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum.) (Bottle of rum.) (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. (Bottle of rum.) (Bottle of rum.) 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, (With a Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum.) (Bottle of rum.) (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, (Bottle of rum.) (Bottle of rum.) 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 (With a Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum.) (Bottle of rum.) (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 (Bottle of rum.) (Bottle of rum.)