by Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 1894)
Fifteen men on a dead man's chest
Language: English
Our translations: HUN
Fifteen men on a 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. Drink and the devil had done for the rest, Yo! ho! ho and a bottle of rum. Hate lies close to love of gold. Dead men's secrets are tardily told. Yo! ho! ho and a bottle of rum. Yo! ho! ho and a bottle of rum. Dead men only the secret shall keep Yo! ho! ho and a bottle of rum. So bare the knife and plunge it deep. Yo! ho! ho! Yo! ho! Yo! ho! ho! Fifteen men on a 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, Fifteen men on a dead man's chest, Drink and the devil had done for the rest, Yo! ho! ho! Yo! ho! Yo! ho! ho!
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Text Authorship:
- by Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 1894), no title, appears in Treasure Island [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Henry Franklin Belknap Gilbert (1868 - 1928), "Pirate song" [text verified 1 time]
Available translations, adaptations, and transliterations (if applicable):
- HUN Hungarian (Magyar) (Zoltán Retkes) , title 1: "Kalózok dala", copyright © 2012, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
Researcher for this page: Barbara Miller
This text was added to the website: 2004-02-10
Line count: 21
Word count: 165