TUNESMITH TUESDAY - "Captain Kidd" by Great Big Sea

SKIPNOTE: The Sci-Fi show The Expanse is my new favorite sci-fi show of all time. I've binged-watched all three seasons several times so far, and a scene from one of the episodes started me thinking. In the 11th episode of the 3rd season, "Fallen World," two of the characters are trapped by a huge piece of machinery with little hope of rescue. To keep from passing out, they start singing an old "Belter" song with the following lyrics:

Oh your parents will teach you well
for you sail for you sail
To shun the gates of hell when you sail.
As most wickedly I did The Inner laws we did forbid
Against them we rebel when we sail.

Oh my gang for sound for sound
When I steer when I steer
Oh my gang for sound for sound
When I steer when I steer
Oh my gang for sound for sound 
and the many ships we found
and all of them we burned
When we sailed.

Me was sick and nigh to death
Tili go tili go
Me was sick and nigh to death
tili go tili go
Me was sick and nigh to death 
but I vowed with my every breath
For go with wisdom ways
When I sail.

To the execution dock i have come
Tili go
to the execution block
for to sail
I was sick and nigh to death 
but I vow with my every breath
For go with wisdom ways when I sail.

I did some searching and found out that the words (at least partially) come from this song by Great Big Sea.  Enjoy! 

"Captain Kidd"

My name is Captain Kidd

As I sailed, as I sailed,

Oh my name is Captain Kidd as I sailed.

My name is Captain Kidd

And God's laws I did forbid,

And most wickedly I did as I sailed.

My father taught me well

To shun the gates of hell,

But against him I rebelled as I sailed.

He shoved a Bible in my hand

But I left it in the sand

And I pulled away from land,

As I sailed

[Chorus]

I murdered William Moore

And I left him in his gore

Twenty leagues away from shore

As I sailed.

And being crueler still, the gunner I did kill

All his precious blood did spill,

As I sailed.

[Chorus]

I was sick and nigh to death,

And I vowed at every breath,

Oh to walk in wisdom's path,

As I sailed.

But my repentance lasted not,

My vows I soon forgot,

Oh damnation is my lot,

As I sailed. 

[Chorus]

To the execution dock

Lay my head upon the block,

Laws no more I'll mock as I sail,

So take warning here and heed

To shun bad company

Or you'll wind up just like me

As I sailed.