We set out for the sea with icicles in our beards
Where the wind bit like dog's teeth
And the sea swept our ship
Like the hand of a
God who had been enraged
So we carried our dead to the shore
And that left nine more
There was violence in the air tonight
When the ship split in half
We lost two to the brine
And the seawater swilled across the floor
And the captain lives no more
For he sleeps on the ocean floor
The old bastard was as big as a bear
And his coffin was made of a redwood's trunk
His appetite never thinned
His belly was wide as two barrels of gin
Cut the engine, tie it off to the post
Heave away at my call listen well, one and all
We'll be rid of this scourge
When his body goes overboard
He'd been in irons for seventy days
Fed just gunpowder to fuel his rage
Screamed bloody murder and tore at his chains
We've made him this way
We were left on that isle with a skeleton crew
Made of dead men and sinners
Hell bound through and through
Then it was he who came to our shore and he left no more
[00:00.00]We set out for the sea with icicles in our beards
[00:06.03]Where the wind bit like dog's teeth
[00:10.38]And the sea swept our ship
[00:12.42]Like the hand of a
[00:13.77]God who had been enraged
[00:16.35]So we carried our dead to the shore
[00:20.25]And that left nine more
[00:24.57]There was violence in the air tonight
[00:28.59]When the ship split in half
[00:30.48]We lost two to the brine
[00:32.88]And the seawater swilled across the floor
[00:36.90]And the captain lives no more
[00:40.65]For he sleeps on the ocean floor
[00:45.93]The old bastard was as big as a bear
[00:49.23]And his coffin was made of a redwood's trunk
[00:52.98]His appetite never thinned
[00:57.30]His belly was wide as two barrels of gin
[01:01.74]Cut the engine, tie it off to the post
[01:09.24]Heave away at my call listen well, one and all
[01:13.89]We'll be rid of this scourge
[01:17.34]When his body goes overboard
[01:22.20]He'd been in irons for seventy days
[01:26.25]Fed just gunpowder to fuel his rage
[01:30.18]Screamed bloody murder and tore at his chains
[01:35.07]We've made him this way
[01:38.04]We were left on that isle with a skeleton crew
[01:42.30]Made of dead men and sinners
[01:44.40]Hell bound through and through
[01:46.74]Then it was he who came to our shore and he left no more