The Jetty

I am just a navy boy Sword and rifle ready Waiting for my death Among the wreckage on the jetty My captain was a sailor Weary on the waves Started out a lonely whaler That kept a steady gaze He was haunted by the law For a count of sixty crimes Many were for stealing But twenty-five for taking lives Oh oh, Oh oh Made port to see the judge One night while he was resting Cut a hole into his gut And hung him by his own intestine And on our way back to the ship A drunken man called out to us The bottle slurred his lips But we heard him well enough He told us of a monster A beast beneath the deep With thirteen arms and seven legs And three mouths of gnashing teeth Eighty feet in length, the devil in the flesh What a prize we thought A trophy we must catch Oh oh, Oh oh So at the next sunrise We set our sails for Greenland We readied our harpoons In search of this demon And what a fight it was When she surfaced from the depths She had poison on her tongue And sulfur on her breath She killed half of the crew And we knew we met our match We fired all our guns But she never took a scratch The bow began to break And all the sails were torn We ran out of ammunition And took our chances overboard Oh oh, Oh oh Some crew mates couldn't swim So we left them on the boat I heard their final screams And the crunching of their bones It was just me and the captain That crawled out of the sea In our torn and bloodied clothes We rested on the beach Oh oh, Oh oh Thirty days we were stranded With starvation setting in And my mind began to wonder If my captain was my friend So on the night of a new moon I snuck up from behind And I gently grabbed his shoulder Shoved my knife into his spine I cooked his flesh over the fire And saw the marrow from his bones Now I feel the sorrow For I have to die alone I sit upon this jetty On the shores of Greenland The bloody tide keeps rolling in And I can still hear my captain singing Your navy can't tame me Their screams serenade me Lay low, you cowards, lay low There's a black cloud rolling in Over the ocean It's coming for your soul He's singing Your navy can't tame me Their screams serenade me Lay low, you cowards, lay low There's a black cloud rolling in Over the ocean It's coming for your soul