Dead Men's Ship - The Tiger Lillies

The mariner alone survives

Survives in living hell

Each sailor there does lose their lives

As he rings his bell

There among the rotting corpses

He is left to play

The wreak of their rotting limbs

The stench of their decay

For seven days on that death ship

The mariner does lie

Haunted by the curse of

Each dead sailor’s eye

Until at last King Neptune

Mercy does him show

The albatross falls from his neck

At last the curse does go

So upon a dead man’s ship

The rain comes tumbling down

So the dead men come to life

And start to move around

These dead men do not speak

Each is a living corpse

Yet the helmsman steers his ship

A steady north

King Neptune carries this ship

Dead sailors all him serve

Now the mariner repents

Each action and each word

So homeward the mariner floats

On King Neptune’s sea

And when it is his time to die

King Neptune sets him free

Then he’ll be amongst the waves

A mermaid will he love

Each day be like a summer’s day

Stare at the skies above

So upon a dead man’s ship

The rain comes tumbling down