Twenty-One Below

Intro - Low Tom Roll & Shanty Call

Way, hey, the field guide bleeds

Way, hey, from lochs to blackest seas

Verse 1 - The Saltwater Butchers

I left St. John's with a mermaid's kiss

Tail of green and a murderous bliss

Nessie breached through the morning fog

Stronsay Beast like a rotted log

U-28 rose in a U-boat's wake

A black S-curve that the sea did make

Kraken's black ink and a Giant Squid's eye

Big arms everywhere and nobody asks why

Chorus - Full Band, Gang Vocals

Oh roll the deep boys roll the deep

Twenty-one names that the water keeps

Heave away lads heave away strong

Sing the monsters in a rock and roll shanty song

Post-Chorus

Heave heave heave it high

They churn beneath the sky

Verse 2 - The Freshwater Teeth

Dobhar-chú cut through the Irish mere

Megalodon still huntin' down here

Champ's humps on Champlain at night

Ogopogo draggin' green firelight

Memphre howls up in Quebec

Caddy rides with a horse's neck

Lake Van watches from Turkey's shore

And I don't count the ones that rode before

Pre-Chorus - Half-time Breakdown

Globster on the beach just blubber and bone

Zuiyo-maru a carcass the trawlers had sewn

Coelacanth lives the fossil that swims

Altie slides where the swamp gets dim

Chorus - Bigger

Oh roll the deep boys roll the deep

Twenty-one names that the water keeps

From Altamaha to Thetis Lake

The water takes and the water wakes

Post-Chorus

Heave heave heave it high

They never tell you why

Bridge - Sea Shanty Call & Response

Call: Thetis in the lake with the otter's hide

Crew: Way hey she takes a bite

Call: Horse-head serpent squid and shark

Crew: Way hey down in the dark

Guitar Solo / Final Verse - Slow, Heavy

So if you hear it bubble boy don't lean in

Every lake and ocean's got a little sin

Log it in the guide 1850 to today

Twenty-one below and they all want to play

Outro Chorus - Shout It

Roll the deep boys roll the deep

Mermaid Nessie Kraken in the deep

Heave away lads heave away long

Here's your rock sea shanty sing the water wrong