My captain has a timber toe
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A stranger man I'd never know
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I'd follow him to hell and back
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But he keeps me up when he walks the deck!
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O deadly is my bright harpoon
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Worth its weight in gold doubloons
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Forged with blood and razor blades
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The devil himself won't get away!
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My babies
Snap your spines in two and twenty
Devil may care that's just as well
Pull for the back of the great white whale
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A crew of mongrel renegades
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Of cannibals and castaways
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We work the waves without a care
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The jaws of death are an easy chair!
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When bunking with a cannibal
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You’d better hope he’s had his fill
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Make sure your hammock’s tightly wrapped
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Or he might take a finger for a midnight snack!
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My babies
Burst your lungs for a cask of brandy
Tell-tale compass points straight to hell
Pull for the back of the great white whale
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Now Jonah was a wicked man
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Swallowed by Leviathan
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Imagine our first mate's surprise
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To find the old man still inside
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I leave a white and turbid wake
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My destiny's my worst mistake
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Damned and doomed I have no doubt
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I'm gnawed within and scorched without!
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My babies
Are you fast or are you loose fish
Watch for the spout & the mighty tail
Pull for the back of the great white whale
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A whaleman’s life is a fragile thing
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His death knell all too often rings
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It’s three years since I’ve walked dry land
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So you can read by whale oil lamp!
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O strength and patience, cash and time
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Don’t get tangled in the line
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Or drat the file and drat the bone
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You’re going down to Davy Jones!
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Of teeth tiered sharks, O tell me not
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Where navies rust and anchors rot
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I'd be at home in Noah's flood
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Salty water's In my Blood!
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My babies
Clinched to desks and nailed to benches
Take to the ocean and trim the sail
Pull for the back of the great white whale
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My babies
Keep your weather eye wide open
Sing out hearties without fail
Pull for the back of the great white whale