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 "Shiver Me Timbers"

"Shiver Me Timbers" pirates said

In works of fiction in oath mock

When something weird happened that led

The pirates to a state of shock.

Based on real nautical slang that

Referred to wooden timbered ships

Which were the pirates' habitat.

The wood would "shiver" in bad tips.

Many a pirate also had

Need for a peg leg made of wood,

And sometimes when the ship rocked bad,

Overboard went the leg, not good!

Sunk below the cold ocean deep,

One more "shiver me timbers" "bleep."