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It's a Hard Tack Life

from The Aftership Party by Captain Vulpine!

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Me and my baby
Starin’ at the sea
Life is grand away from land
It’s the sailors life for me

The weather’s perfect
The wind in my hair
I got no worries, I’m in no hurry
And life is totally fair
.
.
.
Wrong.
.

Heave ho
Heave ho, heave ho
...Mates.

The work is tough
The food is shit
The yellow Jack’s raised
and the food is shit.
(The work is tough
The food is shit)

The yellow Jack’s raised but you aint that sick

The coffer’s empt’
The rum’s been spent
No land in sight
And the rum’s been spent
(The coffer’s empt’
The rum’s been spent)

No land in sight when there shoulda been

The deck aint swabbed
The hull aint caulked
The captain’s mad that the hull aint caulked
(The deck aint swabbed
The hull aint caulked)

So get off yer ass and swab

Heave ho
Heave ho

You hang the jib
You break a rib
You can’t slow down when you break a rib
(We hang the jib
We break a rib)

And then you get back to work

You mutiny
You end up dead
You get marooned and you end up dead
(We mutiny
We end up dead)

Mark my words or lose your head

The Kraken looms
You sense the doom
You keep on working, you bilge rat croons

The Kraken looms
We hate this git
But we keep on working and the food is shit

Heave ho, heave ho

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from The Aftership Party, released March 13, 2012

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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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