Tonart: A minor
Verse 1
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We are two mariners
Our ships' sole survivors
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In this belly of a whale
Its ribs are ceiling beams
Its guts are carpeting
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I guess we have some time to kill
Verse 2
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You may not remember me
I was a child of three
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And you, a lad of eighteen
But I remember you
And I will relay to you
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How our histories interweave
Verse 3
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A rake and a roustabout
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Spending all your money
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On the whores and hounds
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Oh
Verse 4
a charming air
All cheap and debonair
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My widowed mother found so sweet
And so she took you in
Her sheets still warm with him
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Now filled with filth and foul disease
Verse 5
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As time wore on you proved
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A debt- ridden drunken mess
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A poor consumptive wretch
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Oh, oh
Verse 6
disappeared
Your gambling arrears
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The only thing you left behind
And then the magistrate
Reclaimed our small estate
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And my poor mother lost her mind
Verse 7
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Then, one day in spring
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My dear sweet mother died
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I took her hand as she, dying, cried
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Oh, oh
Verse 8
bind him
Tie him to a pole and break
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His fingers to splinters
Drag him to a hole
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Until he wakes up naked
Clawing at the ceiling of his
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grave"
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Verse 9
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Dm
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It took me fifteen years
To swallow all my tears
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Among the urchins in the street
Until a priory
Took pity and hired me
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To keep their vestry nice and neat
Verse 10
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But never once in the employ
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Did I ever once turn my mind
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From the thought of revenge
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Oh, oh
Verse 11
I overheard
The prior exchanging words
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With a penitent whaler from the sea
The captain of his ship
Who matched you toe to tip
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Was known for wanton cruelty
Verse 12
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I shipped to sea with a privateer
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And in the whistle of the wind
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Oh, oh
Verse 13
Tie him to a pole and break
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His fingers to splinters
Drag him to a hole
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Until he wakes up, naked
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Clawing at the ceiling of his grave
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There is one thing I must
Verse 14
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As you sail across the sea
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Always, your mother will watch over you
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As you avenge this wicked deed"
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Verse 15
And then, that fateful night
We had you in our sight
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After twenty months at sea
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Your starboard flank abeam
I was getting my muskets
clean
When came this rumbling from
Verse 16
The sky went black
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And the captain quailed
The angry jaws
Of a giant whale
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Oh, oh, oh, oh
Verse 17
I survived
The crew all was chewed alive
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I must have slipped between his teeth
But, oh, what providence
What divine intelligence
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That you should survive as well as me
Verse 18
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It gives my heart great joy
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To see your eyes fill with fear
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So lean in close and I will whisper
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The last words you'll hear
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Oh,
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