Intro:
Am Em Am x2
Verse:
Am E Am
Fifteen men on the dead man's chest
Am E Am
Drink and the devil had done for the rest.
Dm Am
The mate was fixed with the bosun's pike
Dm Am
and the bosun brained with a marlin-spike.
E
Cookie's throat was marked belike
Ref:
Am
It had been clutched by fingers ten.
E
And there they lay, all good dead men,
Am
Like break o' day in a boozing den
E Am
Yo-ho-ho and a bottle of rum!