Roll the Deep, Boys

Intro - Low Tom Roll & Shanty Call

Way, hey, the field guide bleeds

Way, hey, from lochs to blackest seas

Verse 1

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, Giant Squid's eye

Giant Octopus with a grip too wide

Pre-Chorus

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

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

Verse 2

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

San Clemente dragged from the ocean floor

Pre-Chorus

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

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

Bridge

Thetis in the lake with the otter's hide

(way hey, she takes a bite)

Horse-head, serpent, squid and shark

(way hey, down in the dark)

Final Verse

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

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