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September 19,
15 Men on a Dead Man's Chest - Recommended Song

We listened to and disussed this murderous sea shanty in the Kitely session on "Talk Like A Pirate Day".   

Fifteen men on a dead man's chest.
Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum.
Drink and the devil had done with the rest.
Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum.
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 den.
Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum.

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