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_ _ _ _ _ We are two mariners, a ship's sole survivors, in this belly of a
E whale.
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_ Its ribs are ceiling beams, its guts are carpeting, I guess we have some time
Am to kill.
_ _ _ You may not remember me, I was a child of three, and you a lad of
E eighteen.
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But I remember you, and I will relate to you, how our history's in
Am a weave.
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F At the time you were a rake and a _
Am _ rastabow, _ .
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F _ spending all your money on the hoards
E and howls.
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E Oh, _
Am oh, you had a charming air, so deep and ebony, _ my widowed mother found
E so sweet.
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And so she took you in, her sheets so warm and him, now filled with filth and
Am foul disease.
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F As time wore on, you proved a dead, ridden,
Am drunken _ _ mess.
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F Leaving my mother a pork and some dear
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F ranch.
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E Oh, _
Am oh, and then you disappeared, your gambling arrears, the only thing you left
E behind.
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_ _ And then the magistrate reclaimed our small estate, and my poor mother lost her mind.
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F Then one day in spring, my dear sweet mother _
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died.
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F But boy, she did, I took her hand as she
E dying _ cried.
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F _ Oh,
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oh,
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took me
G fifteen
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G Am tears, among the urchins in
E the street.
_ _ _ _ Until a prior mayor took pity and hired me to keep their best street
Am nice and clean.
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F But never once in the employ of these holy _
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men,
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F did I ever once turn my mind from the thought of
E revenge.
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E Oh, oh, _ _
Am one night I overheard the prior exchanging words
E with a penitent whaler from the sea.
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The _ captain of his ship, who met you toe to tip, was known for one cruel
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F The following day I shipped a sea with a _
Am _ privateer, _ _
F and in the whistle of the wind I could
E almost hear.
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E Oh, _ oh,
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say to you,
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as you sail
G across the sea, _ .
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Am _ _ _ always your
A mother
Em will watch over you,
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as you avenge
E this wicked deed.
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Am _ And then that fateful night, we had you in our sight, after
E twenty months at sea.
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You starboard flanker beam, I was getting my muskets clean, when came this rumbling
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Am beneath.
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The ocean shook, the sky went black, and the captain
Am _ quailed, _ as
F did four us crew, the angry joys of a giant
E whale.
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Am _ So now how I survived, the crew all was chewed alive, I must have slipped between
E his teeth.
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But oh, what _ providence, what divine intelligence, _ that you should survive as well as
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me.
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F It gives my eye great joy to see your eyes filled with
Am fear.
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F So lean in close, and I will whisper the last
E words you'll hear.
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