Buried under my feet there's a man I did meet, Ch: Tally roo ti-die roo aye-ay He sullied my name so I put him to sleep Ch: Tally roo ti-die roo-die-day Buried under the hill is a fella I killed, Ch: Tally roo ti-die roo aye-ay I opened his throat for he looked at me ill Ch: Tally roo ti-die roo-die-day Hidden under my bed there's a woman I wed Ch: Tally roo ti-die roo aye-ay She was too hard to please, harder still now she's dead Ch: Tally roo ti-die roo-die-day Deep down under the sea, a crew of twenty three Ch: Tally roo ti-die roo aye-ay Those that see them now know from my banners to flee Ch: Tally roo ti-die roo-die-day
So tell all who await that our temper is great Tally roo ti-die roo aye-ay Those who don't heed the word cast their hand to the fates Tally roo ti-die roo-die-day

This song is written by the Longest Johns. It follows the form of many humorous shanties of old, allowing unlimited extemporaneous verses (in the form of rhyming couplets) from the crew. Such songs, it has been claimed, could go on for hundreds of verses before exhaustion set in.