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