[Verse 1]

O sailors take heed, you'd better beware

Of a treacherous whore named Molly Blair

In the taproom at the Rose and Crown

On the dockside down in Gravesend town

[Verse 2]

While she dizzies you with her smiles and charms

And rolls you merrily in her arms

She'll be slipping drops into your ale

Till you find you've shipped on the Abigail

[Chorus]

She's a hell ship with a bully mate

The bastard son of malice and hate

The captain's the worst that's ever been born

And together we'rе sailing around Cape Horn

[Verse 3]

When you wake you'll find you'rе far from shore

With no boots or jacket and a head so sore

And the tyrants ruling o'er the crew

With the fist and the cat and the blackjack too

[Chorus]

She's a hell ship with a bully mate

The bastard son of malice and hate

The captain's the worst that's ever been born

And together we're sailing around Cape Horn

[Verse 4]

If the first mate, he don't like your face

You'll find yourself in a far worse place

At the bottom of the sea with your head stove in

By capstan bar or belaying pin

[Chorus]

She's a hell ship with a bully mate

The bastard son of malice and hate

The captain's the worst that's ever been born

And together we're sailing around Cape Horn

[Verse 5]

Off Magellan Straits on mountain seas

We're starved and sick and we damn near freeze

Good for {?} days, as any can tell

In the gale that blows from the mouth of Hell

[Chorus]

She's a hell ship with a bully mate

The bastard son of malice and hate

The captain's the worst that's ever been born

And together we're sailing around Cape Horn

[Verse 6]

If ever I see dry land once more

I'll jump from the pig-rail and swim ashore

And make damn sure that I nevermore sail

On a hell ship like the Abigail

[Chorus]

She's a hell ship with a bully mate

The bastard son of malice and hate

The captain's the worst that's ever been born

And together we're sailing around Cape Horn

[Chorus]

She's a hell ship with a bully mate

The bastard son of malice and hate

The captain's the worst that's ever been born

And together we're sailing around Cape Horn