bosun's verses

ye banished privateers

hej ha

hej ha

our bosun's got no legs

hej ha

hej ha

he walks on wooden pegs

hej ha

hej ha

our bosun's got no legs

hej ha

hej ha

he walks on wooden pegs

to sink a scooner he aspired

as bosun ordered starboard fire

but the gunners aim was far too poor

and blew his legs to galway shore

our bosun was a handsome lad

who fancy trousers always had

but now he walks like he was sick

with wooden pegs and iron prick

hej ha

hej ha

our bosun's out of sight

hej ha

hej ha

his face is not quite right

hej ha

hej ha

our bosun's out of sight

hej ha

hej ha

his face is not quite right

eadbutting with a powder keg

his eyeballs turned to shattered eggs

he likes to keep his corn pipe lit

his sockets now two gaping pits

his teeth they rot

are now long gone

from chewing his tobacco wrong

his horrid smile

his awful grin

will turn your bowels outside-in

hej ha

hej ha

our bosun's full of holes

hej ha

hej ha

punctured are his bowels

hej ha

hej ha

our bosun's full of holes

hej ha

hej ha

punctured are his bowels

he fell from our main top mast

took with him our youngest ghast

he landed on a pile of nails

his screams echoed through the sails

our bosun now a hopeless drunk

pouring rum right down his trunk

but leaking like a rusty sieve

his belly's lost it's will to live

hej ha

hej ha

our bosun's lost his head

hej ha

hej ha

he be a broken man

hej ha

hej ha

our bosun's lost his head

hej ha

hej ha

he be a broken man

once we tried for mutiny

and threw our bosun in the sea

then with a shark he picked a fight

lost his hand in one big bite

but the giant fish had a taste for more

jumped the deck in flesh and gore

oh bosun grabbed it's beastly fun

came back and whipped us for our sins

hej ha

hej ha

he be a tattered shit

hej ha

hej ha

but bosun rules the ship

hej ha

hej ha

he be a tattered shit

hej ha

hej ha

but bosun rules the ship