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this song is by Roger Chartier on the "Sailing Away" CD

Yo Ho Ho And A Bottle Of Rum   
written by:  Robert Lewis Stevenson 1881 
and more lyrics added by  Young Ewing Allison 1891

Lyrics courtesy of www.sailorsongs.com

Fifteen men on a dead man’s chest 

Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum

Drink and the devil be done for the rest 

Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum

The mate was fixed by the bos’n’s pike

The bos’n’ brained with a marlin spike and 

Cookey’s throat was marked belike It

Had been gripped by fingers ten and 

There they lay all good dead men like

Break o’ day in a boozing ken                           

Yo Ho Ho and a bottle of rum      

Lyrics courtesy of www.sailorsongs.com