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Bow to the Boatswain

from Argentavis Exponential by Captain Vulpine!

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Well grab your holystones my son
Let's get to work for the old bosun
Trice yourself afore the dayblink's gone
And pay the Devil for another dawn

Chock a block that rigging, Jack
Man the brightware, mind the slack
Idler's are Jonah's all,
So mind your wits for the Bosun's call

Lay De Aye Oh Lo A Lee Lay De Aye Ah Oh
Lay De Aye Oh Lo A Lee oh Lay De Aye Ah Oh

Start yer climb ye barrelman,
Grab your fids unship that grin
Deckie's all to the fantail go
And you sea dogs to the bilge below

Lay De Aye Oh Lo A Lee Lay De Aye Ah Oh
Lay De Aye Oh Lo A Lee Oh Lay De Aye Ah Oh

Oh lee oh, or hard a lee
Man the yards for the Bosun's plea;
"Any man with bleeding hands shall bleed no more from me"

Lay De Aye Oh Lo A Lee Lay De Aye Ah Oh
Lay De Aye Oh Lo A Lee Oh Lay De Aye Ah Oh

Sally ship for the Commadore
When you get that rank, you can pay that whore
But the only gal you'll get tonight
Is the "Captain's Daughter" if the moor's not tight

Lay De Aye Oh Lo A Lee Lay De Aye Ah Oh
Lay De Aye Oh Lo A Lee Oh Lay De Aye Ah Oh

Don your wretched foulie's all
We don't stop working for a minor squall
And if you wind up dead my son
Just don't get word to the old Boatswain

Lay De Aye Oh Lo A Lee Lay De Aye Ah Oh
Lay De Aye Oh Lo A Lee Oh Lay De Aye Ah Oh

The sun is past the yardarm now
We've earned our grog and we've earned it well
So revel in tonights fair wind
For tomorrow's hell all over again

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from Argentavis Exponential, released April 19, 2016

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Captain Vulpine! Portland, Oregon

Culled from the muzzard infested lands of inbetween, Captain Vulpine wanders the ever-dying mortal world in search of nothing at all. Shortly after discovering whiskey, all was lost- and the disastrous memoirs of lands and minds long since gone now linger in these culminations of manifested misery and madness. ... more

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