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, 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 - 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

San Clemente dragged from the ocean floor

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

Bridge - 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

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