[Intro]
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[Verse 1]
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We are two mariners, our ships' sole survivors
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In this belly of a whale
Its ribs our ceiling beams, its guts our carpeting
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I guess we have some time to kill
You may not remember me, I was a child of three
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And you a lad of eighteen
But I remember you and I will relate to you
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How our histories interweave
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At the time you were a rake and a roustabout
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Spending all your money on the whores and hounds, oh
[Verse 2]
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You had a charming air, all cheap and debonair
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My widowed mother found so sweet
And so she took you in, her sheets still warm with him
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Now filled with filth and foul disease
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As time wore on you proved a dead-ridden drunken mess
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Leaving my mother a poor consumptive wretch, oh
[Verse 3]
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And then you dissapeared, your gambling arrears
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The only thing you left behind
And then the magistrate reclaimed our small estate
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And my poor mother lost her mind
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Then one day in spring my dear sweet mother died
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But before she did I took her hand as she dying cried, oh
[Chorus]
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"Find him, bind him
Tie him to a pole and break his
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Fingers to splinters
Throw him to a hole until he
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Wakes up naked
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Clawing at the ceiling of his grave"
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[Verse 4]
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It took me fifteen years to swallow all my tears
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Among the urchins in the street
Until a priory took pity and hired me
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To keep their vestry nice and neat
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But never once in the employ of these holy men
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Did I ever once stir my mind from the thought of revenge, oh
[Verse 5]
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One night I overheard the prior exhanging words
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With a penitent whaler from the sea
The captain of his ship who matched you toe to tip
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Was known for wanton cruelty
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The following day I shipped to sea with a privateer
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And in the whistle of the wind I could almost hear, oh
[Chorus]
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"Find him, bind him
Tie him to a pole and break his
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Fingers to splinters
Throw him to a hole until he
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Wakes up naked
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Clawing at the ceiling of his grave
[Bridge]
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There is one thing I must say to you
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As you sail across the sea
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Always your mother will watch over you
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As you avenge this wicked deed"
[Interlude]
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[Verse 6]
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And then that fateful night we had you in our sight
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After twenty months at sea
Your starboard flank a beam, I was getting my muskets clean
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when came this rumbling from beneath
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The ocean stirred the sky went black and the captain quailed
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And before us grew the angry jaws of a giant whale, oh
[Verse 7]
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Don't know how I survived, the crew all was chewed alive
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I must have slipped between his teeth
But oh what providence, what divine intelligence
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That you should survive as well as me
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It gives my heart great joy to see your eyes fill with fear
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So lean in close and I will whisper the last words you'll hear, oh
[Outro]
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