Key: E minor
Verse 1
Em
C#dim
Em
E
The black spot is
Em
E
what you get,
Em
E
when a pirate you upset.
Em
B
E
but not for too long.
Em
E
B
The black spot awaits all those
double -crossing slimy toads
Who have contravened
C#
F#
D#m
the pirate code
E
Em
E
The black spot's a sickening sight,
B
E
turns your hair completely white
Em
B
Em
If you don't die instantly of fright,
E
Am
Heaven help you!
C
Am
B
It's no empty idle threat,
E
Em
C
Bbdim
So pay up your gambling debts,
B
F#
B
Or the fifty -third card in the deck
Em
E
Em
F
Will be dealt you.
Fm
F
When you're by the black spot cursed
Fm
F
Fm
F
Your blood boils and your veins burst
Fm
F
Fm
C
You can drink and drink and still
Fm
C
F
Fm
Your thirst is unquenchable
F
C
You get pustules on your face
On your legs, arms, chest and waist
Em
C
F
Fm
places unmentionable
Bits of you keep falling off
Fm
F
C
Fm
An d you get a rather chesty cough
F
Bbm
Which is never nice
Fm
Db
B
Your extremities all rot
C
Dm
G
Em
Anybody who receives the spot
C
Fm
F
Fm
Gb
pays a heavy price.
Let the black spot be attached
to an arrow and dispatched
Gbm
Db
Gb
hatch of his galleon.
No first mate, just me this time
Ebm
Fm
Sometimes sorrows come in single spies,
Db
Gb
not battalions
When the black spot he is shown
He will gasp and he will groan
Gbm
Gb
Gbm
Db
He will scream an d
Gbm
Gb
B
go all to pieces
Bm
C#
And there's much, much worse in store
Cdim
C#
D#m
C#
F#
His two sweet, ad orable nieces
F#
B
F#m
You and Mises you
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