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 ::::::And they lay there,
 * That had took the plum,
 * With sightless glare
 * And their eyes 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 a hawser’s bight, And we heaved ’em over and out of sight—