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 trolley of an electric car on Clark Street!" Of course, the listener crept closer, and this is what he heard:

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!

For they drank and drank and got so drunk,

Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum!

Each from the dead man bit a chunk,

Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum!

The bottle burst and the men accurst,

Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum!

Sucked his blood to quench their thirst,

Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum!

They sucked his blood and crunched his bones,

Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum!

When suddenly up came Davy Jones,

Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum!

'My men,' says he, 'you must come with me,'

Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum!

And he grinned with a horrible kind of glee,

Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum!

Davy Jones had a big black key,

Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum!

It was for his locker beneath the sea,

Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum!

He winked and he blinked like an owl in a tree,

Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum!

And he sank them all to the bottom of the sea,

Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum!