Yo-ho-ho and a bottle of rum

Original line from Treasure Island:

"Fifteen men on The Dead Man's Chest--

Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum!"

 

Theme expanded in 1891 in a poem by Y.E. Allison:

 

Fifteen men on the Dead Man's Chest—

Drink and the devil had done for the rest—

The mate was fixed by the bos'n's pike,

The bos'n brained with a marlin spike,

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-ken—

Yo-ho-ho and a bottle of rum!

 

Complete lyrics: allpoetry.com/Derelict

 

Excellent rendition: youtu.be/oOEyejZUObs

 

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