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] 

 2. Fifteen men of the whole ship's list
 Yo ho ho and a bottle [bad word] 
 Dead and be damned and the rest gone whist!
 Yo ho ho and a bottle [bad word] 
 The skipper lay with his nob in gore
 Where the scullion's axe his cheek had shore
 And the scullion he was stabbed times four
 And there they lay, and the soggy skies
 Dripped down in up-staring eyes
 In murk sunset and foul sunrise
 Yo ho ho and a bottle [bad word] 

 3. 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 contrawise
 Yo ho ho and a bottle [bad word] 

 4. 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] 

 5. More was seen through a sternlight screen
 Yo ho ho and a bottle [bad word]  Chartings undoubt where a woman had been
 Yo ho ho and a bottle [bad word] 
 'Twas a flimsy shift on a bunker cot
 With a dirk slit sheer through the bosom spot
 And the lace stiff dry in a purplish blot
 Oh was she wench or some shudderin' maid
 That dared the knife and took the blade
 By God! she had stuff for a plucky jade
 Yo ho ho and a bottle [bad word] 

 6. 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] 
 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,
 With a Yo-Heave-Ho! and a fare-you-well
 And a sudden plunge in the sullen swell
 Ten fathoms deep on the road to [bad word] 
 Yo ho ho and a bottle [bad word]