Ho! Sailors, sailors ho!
Up in the rigging or down below
At the bottom of the sea they're waiting for me
Bones, bones, bones
Ho! Sailors, sailors ho!
Storms a-coming and the cold winds blow
At the bottom of the sea...

The sun and its shining blind you,
The weight of the anchor in your soul
Crushed with the crash of the waves upon you,
Travelling heavy
The seas's a canker
That'll take you.

Ho sailors sailors ho!
Dead in the doldrums, nowhere to go
At the bottom of the sea...
Ho! Sailors, sailors ho!
Great white whale says he'll give us a tow
To the bottom of the sea...

The sun and its shining...

TUNE;The King of the fairies

You're damn near drowned,
You drink your final draft
The waves close over you and hope eternal dies
You sleep the sleep, enfolded in the sea bed at the last
And the mermaids sing you a lullaby.

What do you do when you know the end is come
Where do you go to when you're finally alone
You'll be swimming with the fishes where the sun has never shone
Rattling in the deeps in your bones.
Rattling in the deeps, rattling in the deeps,
Rattling in the deeps with your bones...

And the sun and its shining...


Ho! Sailors, sailors ho!
Mermaids on the rocks are combing their locks
And singing to the sailors in their fishy-tailed frocks
At the bottom of the sea they're waiting for me
Bones bones bones...

And the sun and its shining...