Lineage: and I will whisper

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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