A5
We are two mariners
A5
Our ship's sole survivors
A5                      E5
In this belly of a whale
A5
It's ribs are ceiling beams
A5
It's guts are carpeting
A5
I guess we have some time to kill

A5
You may not remember me
A5
I was a child of three
A5                        E5
And you, a lad of eighteen
A5
But, I remember you
A5
And I will relate to you
A5                         E5
How our histories interweave
F5
At the time you were
                      A5
A rake and a roustabout
F5
Spending all your money
                      E5
On the whores and hounds
(oh, oh)

A5
You had a charming air
A5
All cheap and debonair
A5                            E5
My widowed mother found so sweet
A5
And so she took you in
A5
Her sheets still warm with him
A5                                  E5
Now filled with filth and foul disease
F5
As time wore on you proved
                        A5
A debt-ridden drunken mess
F5
Leaving my mother
                        E5
A poor consumptive wretch
(oh, oh)

A5
And then you disappeared
A5
Your gambling arrears
A5                           E5
The only thing you left behind
A5
And then the magistrate
A5
Reclaimed our small estate
A5                            E5
And my poor mother lost her mind
F5
Then, one day in spring
                       A5
My dear sweet mother died
F5
But, before she did
                                   E5
I took her hand as she, dying, cried:
(oh, oh)

( A5 )
"Find him , find 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"

A5
It took me fifteen years
A5
To swallow all my tears
A5                           E5
Among the urchins in the street
A5
Until a priory
A5
Took pity and hired me
A5                           E5
To keep their vestry nice and neat
F5
But, never once in the employ
              A5
these holy men
F5
Did I ever, once turn my mind
                          E5
From the thought of revenge
(oh, oh)

Continua igual os versos.

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 , find 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 twenty months, it seemed
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..)

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 eye 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)