My eyes are fully open to my awful situation
I shall go at once to Mabel and will make her an oration
I shall tell her I am bound by duty and my moral senses
And I don't care twopence halfpenny for any consequences
Now I do not want to perish by the sword or by the dagger
But a pirate must indulge a little pardonable swagger
And a word or two of compliment my vanity would flatter
But I've got to die tonight and so it really doesn't matter!




