Dead Men And Sinners Lyrics - In Bocca Al Lupo - Murder By Death

We set out for sea with icicles in our beards 

where the wind bit like dog's teeth 

and the sea swept our ship up like the hand of a god that 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 

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 made him this way 

we were left on that isle 

with a skeleton crew 

made of dead men and sinners 

hell-bound through and thorugh 

then it was HE who came to our shore 

and he left no more 

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