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The Mariner's Revenge Song
Decemberists
We are two mariners Our ships' sole survivors In this belly of a whale
It's ribs are ceiling beams I guess we have some time to kill It's guts are carpeting
You may not remember me I was a child of three And you, a lad of eighteen
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 Ohhhhh You had a charming air My widowed mother found so sweet
All cheap and debonair
And so she took you in Her sheets still warm with him
As time wore on you proved Now filled with filth and foul disease A debtLeaving my mother A poor consumptive wretch Oh Ohhhhh
And then you disappeared Your gambling arrears The only thing you left behind
Reclaimed our small estate And then the magistrate 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 Ohhhhh "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 fifteen years Among the urchins in the street To swallow all my tears
Took pity and hired me Until a priory To keep their vestry nice and neat
But, never once in the employ Did I ever, once turn my mind Of these holy men From the thought of revenge
Oh Ohhhhh 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 Ohhhhh
"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" [haunting, sailor And then, that fateful night We had you in our sight After twenty months at sea
Your starboard flank abeam When came this rumbling from beneath I was getting my muskets clean
The ocean shook The sky went black And the captain quailed
And before us grew The angry jaws Of a giant whale
[instrumental noise] oh ohhhhhhhhhh [screaming] ohhhhh [screaming]
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! As well as me That you should survive
It gives my heart Great joy To see your eyes fill with fear
So lean in close And I will whisper The last words you'll hear Ohh Ohhhhh
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