Fifteen men on a dead man's chest
Yo ho ho and a bottle [bad word] Drink and the devil had done for the rest
Yo ho ho and a bottle [bad word] 
The mate was fixed by the bosun's pike
The bosun brained with a marlinspike
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 [bad word] 

Fifteen men of 'em stiff and stark
Yo ho ho and a bottle [bad word] 
Ten of the crew had the murder mark!
Yo ho ho and a bottle [bad word] 
Twas a cutlass swipe or an ounce of lead
Or a yawing hole in a battered head
And the scuppers' glut with a rotting red
And there they lay, aye, [bad word] my eyes
Looking up at paradise
All souls bound just contrariwise
Yo ho ho and a bottle [bad word] 

Fifteen men of 'em good and [bad word] Yo ho ho and a bottle [bad word] 
Ev'ry man jack could ha' sailed with Old Pew,
Yo ho ho and a bottle [bad word] 
There was chest on chest of Spanish gold
With a ton of plate in the middle hold
And the cabins riot of stuff untold,
And they lay there that took the plum
With sightless glare and their lips [bad word] dumb
While we shared all by [bad word] of thumb,
Yo ho ho and a bottle [bad word] 

Fifteen men on a dead man's chest
Yo ho ho and a bottle [bad word] Drink and the devil had done for the rest
Yo ho ho and a bottle [bad word] 

Fifteen men on a dead man's chest
Yo ho ho and a bottle [bad word] Drink and the devil had done for the rest
Yo ho ho and a bottle [bad word] 

And a yo ho ho!