Verse For To-day
Fifteen men on the dead man’s
chest — Yo-ho-ho and a bottle of rum! Drink and the devil had done for the rest — Yo-ho-ho and a bottle of rum! The fixed by the bos’n’s ■pike, The bos’n brained with a marlinspike, And cookey’s throat was marked belike It had been gripped by fingers ten; And there they lay, All good dead men, Like break-o’-day in a boozing ken — Yo-ho-ho and a bottle of rum. *> From “ Yo-ho-ho and a Bottle of Rum,” by Young Ewing Allison, written in expansion of the lines in Stevenson’s ’’Treasure Island.”
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 27212, 15 October 1949, Page 1
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