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 And they lay there

That had 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!

Fifteen men on the 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 the hawser's bight,

And we heaved 'em over and out of sight—

With a yo-heave-ho!

And a fare-you-well!

And a sullen plunge

In the sullen swell—

Ten fathoms deep on the road to hell—

Yo-ho-ho and a bottle of rum!

The first, second, third and last stanzas are the best; the fourth and fifth, in my judgment,