The Mariner's Revenge Song

We are two mariners
 Our ship's sole survivors
 In this belly of a whale
 It's ribs our ceiling beams
 It's guts our carpeting
 I guess we have some time to kill
 You may not remember me
 I was a child of three
 And you, a lad of 18
 But, I remember you
 And I will relate to you
 How our histories interweave
 At the time you were
 A rake and a roustabout
 Spending all your money
 On the whores and hounds, oh
 You had a charming air
 All cheap and debonair
 My widowed mother found so sweet
 And so she took you in
 Her sheets still warm with him
 Now filled with filth and foul disease
 As time wore on you proved
 A debt-ridden drunken mess
 Leaving my mother
 A poor consumptive wretch, oh
 And then you disappeared
 Your gambling arrears
 The only thing you left behind
 And then the magistrate
 Reclaimed our small estate
 And my poor mother lost her mind
 Then, one day in spring
 My dear sweet mother died
 But, before she did
 I took her hand as she, dying, cried, oh, oh
 Find him, bind him
 Tie him to a pole and break
 His fingers to splinters
 Drag him to a hole until he
 Wakes up naked
 Clawing at the ceiling
 Of his grave
 ♪
 It took me 15 years
 To swallow all my tears
 Among the urchins in the street
 Until a priory
 Took pity and hired me
 To keep their vestry nice and neat
 But, never once in the employ
 Of these holy men
 Did I ever, once turn my mind
 From the thought of revenge, oh, oh
 One night I overheard
 The prior exchanging words
 With a penitent whaler from the sea
 The captain of his ship
 Who matched you toe to tip
 Was known for wanton cruelty
 The following day, I shipped to sea
 With a privateer
 And in the whistle of the wind
 I could almost hear, oh, oh
 Find him, bind him
 Tie him to a pole and break
 His fingers to splinters
 Drag him to a hole until he
 Wakes up naked
 Clawing at the ceiling
 Of his grave
 There is one thing I must say to you
 As you sail across the sea
 Always, your mother will watch over you
 As you avenge this wicked deed
 ♪
 And then, that fateful night
 We had you in our sight
 After 20 months at sea
 Your starboard flank abeam
 I was getting my muskets clean
 When came this rumbling from beneath
 The ocean shook
 The sky went black and the captain quailed
 And before us grew
 The angry jaws of a giant whale, oh-oh-oh
 Don't know how I survived
 The crew all was chewed alive
 I must have slipped between his teeth
 But, oh! What providence
 What divine intelligence
 That you should survive as well as me
 It gives my heart great joy
 To see your eyes fill with fear
 To lean in close and I will whisper
 The last words you'll hear, oh, oh
 
 We are two mariners
 Our ship's sole survivors
 In this belly of a whale
 It's ribs our ceiling beams
 It's guts our carpeting
 I guess we have some time to kill
 You may not remember me
 I was a child of three
 And you, a lad of 18
 But, I remember you
 And I will relate to you
 How our histories interweave
 At the time you were
 A rake and a roustabout
 Spending all your money
 On the whores and hounds, oh
 You had a charming air
 All cheap and debonair
 My widowed mother found so sweet
 And so she took you in
 Her sheets still warm with him
 Now filled with filth and foul disease
 As time wore on you proved
 A debt-ridden drunken mess
 Leaving my mother
 A poor consumptive wretch, oh
 And then you disappeared
 Your gambling arrears
 The only thing you left behind
 And then the magistrate
 Reclaimed our small estate
 And my poor mother lost her mind
 Then, one day in spring
 My dear sweet mother died
 But, before she did
 I took her hand as she, dying, cried, oh, oh
 Find him, bind him
 Tie him to a pole and break
 His fingers to splinters
 Drag him to a hole until he
 Wakes up naked
 Clawing at the ceiling
 Of his grave
 ♪
 It took me 15 years
 To swallow all my tears
 Among the urchins in the street
 Until a priory
 Took pity and hired me
 To keep their vestry nice and neat
 But, never once in the employ
 Of these holy men
 Did I ever, once turn my mind
 From the thought of revenge, oh, oh
 One night I overheard
 The prior exchanging words
 With a penitent whaler from the sea
 The captain of his ship
 Who matched you toe to tip
 Was known for wanton cruelty
 The following day, I shipped to sea
 With a privateer
 And in the whistle of the wind
 I could almost hear, oh, oh
 Find him, bind him
 Tie him to a pole and break
 His fingers to splinters
 Drag him to a hole until he
 Wakes up naked
 Clawing at the ceiling
 Of his grave
 There is one thing I must say to you
 As you sail across the sea
 Always, your mother will watch over you
 As you avenge this wicked deed
 ♪
 And then, that fateful night
 We had you in our sight
 After 20 months at sea
 Your starboard flank abeam
 I was getting my muskets clean
 When came this rumbling from beneath
 The ocean shook
 The sky went black and the captain quailed
 And before us grew
 The angry jaws of a giant whale, oh-oh-oh
 Don't know how I survived
 The crew all was chewed alive
 I must have slipped between his teeth
 But, oh! What providence
 What divine intelligence
 That you should survive as well as me
 It gives my heart great joy
 To see your eyes fill with fear
 To lean in close and I will whisper
 The last words you'll hear, oh, oh
 
 We are two mariners
 Our ship's sole survivors
 In this belly of a whale
 It's ribs our ceiling beams
 It's guts our carpeting
 I guess we have some time to kill
 You may not remember me
 I was a child of three
 And you, a lad of 18
 But, I remember you
 And I will relate to you
 How our histories interweave
 At the time you were
 A rake and a roustabout
 Spending all your money
 On the whores and hounds, oh
 You had a charming air
 All cheap and debonair
 My widowed mother found so sweet
 And so she took you in
 Her sheets still warm with him
 Now filled with filth and foul disease
 As time wore on you proved
 A debt-ridden drunken mess
 Leaving my mother
 A poor consumptive wretch, oh
 And then you disappeared
 Your gambling arrears
 The only thing you left behind
 And then the magistrate
 Reclaimed our small estate
 And my poor mother lost her mind
 Then, one day in spring
 My dear sweet mother died
 But, before she did
 I took her hand as she, dying, cried, oh, oh
 Find him, bind him
 Tie him to a pole and break
 His fingers to splinters
 Drag him to a hole until he
 Wakes up naked
 Clawing at the ceiling
 Of his grave
 ♪
 It took me 15 years
 To swallow all my tears
 Among the urchins in the street
 Until a priory
 Took pity and hired me
 To keep their vestry nice and neat
 But, never once in the employ
 Of these holy men
 Did I ever, once turn my mind
 From the thought of revenge, oh, oh
 One night I overheard
 The prior exchanging words
 With a penitent whaler from the sea
 The captain of his ship
 Who matched you toe to tip
 Was known for wanton cruelty
 The following day, I shipped to sea
 With a privateer
 And in the whistle of the wind
 I could almost hear, oh, oh
 Find him, bind him
 Tie him to a pole and break
 His fingers to splinters
 Drag him to a hole until he
 Wakes up naked
 Clawing at the ceiling
 Of his grave
 There is one thing I must say to you
 As you sail across the sea
 Always, your mother will watch over you
 As you avenge this wicked deed
 ♪
 And then, that fateful night
 We had you in our sight
 After 20 months at sea
 Your starboard flank abeam
 I was getting my muskets clean
 When came this rumbling from beneath
 The ocean shook
 The sky went black and the captain quailed
 And before us grew
 The angry jaws of a giant whale, oh-oh-oh
 Don't know how I survived
 The crew all was chewed alive
 I must have slipped between his teeth
 But, oh! What providence
 What divine intelligence
 That you should survive as well as me
 It gives my heart great joy
 To see your eyes fill with fear
 To lean in close and I will whisper
 The last words you'll hear, oh, oh