Six Bells

Once upon a time,

It might've been your lucky day if you ended up
on a sinking ship lost at sea.

 At the moment when you drew straws,

you pulled the short shift,

more colloquially known as
"The Dog Watch"

To beat 'the seven bells' out of someone
is one blow shy of death ...

Clocked.

This song is an hour short.

Lost at sea, half an hour left to list---
there's no, there's no. It's so dark ...
there's no way


Infested with the night.
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Is it a call for mutiny?

[George Jenks wrote a serial in the first pulp mag The Argosy,
vol 68 no 1, Dec 1911. Help me -- I can't find it.]

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