Yo Ho Ho and a Bottle of Rum

DESCRIPTION: "Fifteen men on the Dead Man's Chest, Yo-ho-ho and a bottle of rum." Captain, mate, bos'n, cook are all killed in a fight between the sailors. The survivors wrap up the body, "heaved 'em over," and left them "ten fathoms deep on the road to hell."
AUTHOR: first lines by Robert Louis Stephenson; rest by Young Ewing Allison (1853-1932) (source: Frank-NewBookOfPirateSongs)
EARLIEST DATE: 1891 (Allison's original version, according to Frank-NewBookOfPirateSongs)
KEYWORDS: pirate fight death ship burial
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REFERENCES (1 citation):
Frank-NewBookOfPirateSongs 84, "Yo Ho Ho and a Bottle of Rum" (1 text, 1 tune; #62 in the first edition)
Roud #V31917
File: FrPi084

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