Billy Bones at the Admiral Benbow

From Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
The arrival of the old buccaneer Billy Bones at the Admiral Benbow Inn launches the plot and introduces the novel's signature shanty.
Chapter 1

The 'tall, strong, heavy, nut-brown man' with the sabre cut, singing 'Fifteen men on the dead man's chest— / Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum!' — perhaps the most famous pirate song in literature.

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