00:00I worked as a trawler when I was a lad
00:03The net was my sister, the mast was my dad
00:06We voyaged to Java in search of a shoal
00:09But the holes in my sister impeded our goal
00:12The grog was escaping, the fish had run dry
00:14My father snapped off, waving goodbye
00:17And ho, the harbour's ahead
00:20And the whale in my locker is heavy and dead
00:23The mermaid imbibed a flagon of gin
00:25Then cursed me with one mighty flap of her skin
00:28My hull became human, my rudder was meat
00:31My rigging was turned into phathoms of fate
00:34A full merman revived me all over the earth
00:37I pledged to return to the port of my birth
00:39Land, ho, the harbour's ahead
00:42And the whale in my locker is heavy and dead
00:45As I crossed the equator, the old mermaid's curse
00:48Made my torso swing clockwise, my legs in reverse
00:51Arriving in winter, I spied on the quay
00:54The scurviest couple you ever did see
00:57I harpooned my father, my sister as well
01:00They fell in the water, I'll see them in hell
01:03Land, ho, the harbour's ahead
01:05And the whale in my locker is heavy and dead
01:08Land, ho, the harbour is gone
01:11And the mermaid was really my ship all along
01:28They fell in death
01:32Whistling
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