When Ye Dead Come Sailing Home

verse 1 Yeah listen to me words me friend Ohoy, Ohoy! Our days are comin' to an end Ohoy, Ohoy! At sea there dreadful horrors be, They're comin' here fer yeah 'n' me. And all be doomed when yeah dead come sailing home verse 2 In fifteen hundred and sixty-one Ohoy, Ohoy! A ship with crew went down 'n' drowned Ohoy, Ohoy! But the captain said we dead won'y stay, I'll sell me soul to be back one day. In a hundred years - ye dead will sail again! Instrumental verse 3 When ye dead come sailin' home again Ohoy, Ohoy! All men 'n' women tremble then Ohoy, Ohoy! Oh the men will flee, n' the boys will shout The ladies they will all turn out And all be doomed when yeah dead come sailing home verse 4 Ye old church bell shall ring with dread Ohoy, Ohoy! To welcome out returning dead Ohoy, Ohoy! The village lads 'n' lassies say Piles of corpses line the way. And they all be doomed when yeah dead come sailing home Instrumental Verse 5 In sixteen hundred and sixty-one Ohoy, Ohoy! Ye dead shall sail again me friend Ohoy, Ohoy! In sixteen hundred and sixty-one All men and women turn 'n' run And all be doomed when ye dead come sailin' home Verse 6 Them hundred years has passed so fast Ohoy, Ohoy! Behold! at Sea! A crooked mast! Ohoy, Ohoy! A rotten deck, on a leaking hull On it a rime of bones and scum And we all be doomed when Yes they all be doomed when And we all be doomed when ye dead come sailin' home