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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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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 text: Barbara Miller
This text was added to the website: 2004-02-10
Line count: 21
Word count: 165
Tizenöten a halott ládáján,
Johohó meg egy üveg rum !
A többiek rég' a sátán hátán,
Johohó meg egy üveg rum !
A többiek rég' az üveg alján,
Johohó meg egy üveg rum !
Az aranyláz akár a gyűlölet;
A halott ember az biz' mind süket.
Johohó meg egy üveg rum !
Johohó meg egy üveg rum !
A halott ember az biz' mind néma,
Johohó meg egy üveg rum !
Mélyre mártsd késed ! Legyen úgy még ma,
Johohó johó johohó !
Tizenöten a halott ládáján,
Johohó meg egy üveg rum !
A többiek rég' a sátán hátán,
Johohó meg egy üveg rum !
Tizenöten a halott ládáján,
A többiek rég' az üveg alján,
Johohó johó johohó !
Authorship
- Translation from English to Hungarian (Magyar) copyright © 2012 by Zoltán Retkes, (re)printed on this website with kind permission. To reprint and distribute this author's work for concert programs, CD booklets, etc., you must ask the copyright-holder(s) directly for permission. If you receive no response, you must consider it a refusal.
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- a text in English by Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 1894), no title, appears in Treasure Island
This text was added to the website: 2012-02-10
Line count: 21
Word count: 119