Hempen Jig

My Captains been caught cavorting

With the women in the port

And now he'll be dancing

The hempen jig!

I don't want to die!

I shall repent I'll do the time

I give my word to God

He'll chuck it back

Your word means nothing!

Can you see the woven cord of justice?

Swinging from the yard arm

In front of all to see

A brave man here

stands before the crowd

And pelted with rotten fruit

Not popular is he

And before I know the noose is thrown

Around my tender neck

And it bites down hard upon the shard

Of life I still have left

I am dancing the Hempen Jig!

And I'll testify, repent my crimes

Relinquish from my sins

And I have a last request

That's please save me!

The Governor strolls out from the docks

Across the crowd the crew I spot

Clutching sword and dagger

'neath their veils

I dangle from the rope and knot

I will not die I will not rot!

A darkened sense of wonder

fills my sails

An arrow strikes the cord

I lay crumpled on the shore

A rogue wave drags me out to sea

The ocean calls, is this the end?

Is this my destiny?

I get pulled into the depths

And all around the sirens bound

About the sunken wrecks

And I lay to rest my burning neck

Upon the sea floor bed

And I have a last request

That's please save me.

There's an ancient sailor myth

If when the mast the shit doth hit

And an ancient pact is made

Hats off to Davy Jones

The demon keeper

of the drowning souls

That he's never setting free

I'd rather sleep beneath the waves

let me

Rest. In. Peace.