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The Mariner's Revenge
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101. The Mariner's Revenge

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We are two mariners
 
our ships' sole survivors
 
In this belly of a
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whale
 
Its ribs our ceiling beams
 
its guts our carpeting
 
I guess we have some time to
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kill
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You may not remember me
 
I was a child of three
 
And you a lad of
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eighteen
 
But I remember you and
 
I will relay to you
 
How our histories
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interweave
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At the time you were a rake
 
and a
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roustabout
  
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the whores and hounds, oh
 
the whores and
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hounds
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oh
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You had a charming air,
 
all cheap and debonair
 
My widowed mother found so
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sweet
 
And so she took you in,
 
her sheets still warm with him
 
Now filled with filth and foul
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disease
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As time wore on you proved
 
a debt-ridden drunken
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mess
  
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Leaving my mother a poor
 
consumptive
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wretch
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oh oh
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And then you dissapeared,
 
your gambling arrears
 
The only thing you left
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behind
 
And then the magistrate
 
reclaimed our small estate
 
And my poor mother lost her
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mind
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Then one day in spring
 
my dear sweet mother
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died
  
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But before she did I took her hand
 
as she dying
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cried
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oh
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Find him, bind him
 
Tie him to a pole and break his
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Fingers to splinters
  
Throw him to a hole until he
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Wakes up naked
 
Clawing at the ceiling of his
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grave
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oh
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It took me fifteen years to
 
swallow all my tears
 
Among the urchins in the
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street
 
Until a priory
 
took pity and hired me
 
To keep their vestry nice and
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neat
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But never once
 
in the employ of these holy
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men
  
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Did I ever once stir my mind
 
from the thought of
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revenge
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oh
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One night I overheard
 
the prior exhanging words
 
With a penitent whaler from the
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sea
 
The captain of his ship
 
who matched you toe to tip
 
Was known for wanton
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cruelty
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The following day
 
I shipped to sea with a
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privateer
  
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And in the whistle of the wind
 
I could almost
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hear
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oh
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Find him, bind him
 
Tie him to a pole and break his
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Fingers to splinters
  
Throw him to a hole until he
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Wakes up naked
 
Clawing at the ceiling of his
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grave
F E
oh
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There is one thing I must
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say to you
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As you sail across th
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sea
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Always your mother will watch
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over you
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As you avenge this wicked
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deed
Dm
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Dm
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Dm
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Dm
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And then that fateful night
 
we had you in our sight
 
After twenty months at
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sea
 
Your starboard flank a beam,
 
I was getting my muskets clean
 
when came this rumbling fro
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beneath
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The ocean stirred
 
the sky went black and the captain
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quailed
  
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And before us grew
 
the angry jaws of a giant
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whale
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oh
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Don't know how I survived,
 
the crew all was chewed alive
 
I must have slipped between his
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teeth
 
But oh what providence
 
what divine intelligence
 
That you should survive as well as
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me
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It gives my heart great joy
 
to see your eyes fill with
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fear
  
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So lean in close and
 
I will whisper the last words you'll
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hear
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oh
Dm
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Dm
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Dm
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Dm
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