Original words and music by Toby Quast
Woah-oh kill the Shanty-Man, dead!
Surely, you’re kidding?
No! Off with his head!
Someone please help me, I need an adult!
That’s what you get for joining a cult!
It’s Monday night and I felt like a beer Walking in Redfern, sweet singing I’d hear
My home away from home, walls covered in cock
Time for some shanties; right here, at The Dock
Woah-oh kill the Shanty-Man, dead!
Surely, you’re kidding?
No! Off with his head!
Someone please help me, I need an adult!
That’s what you get for joining a cult!
But the night got a little weird once I’d had a few wines
Got pulled to the side and handed forms to sign
They told me not to worry, that it’s part of the plan
Forced me with a knife to change my name to ‘Dan’
Woah-oh kill the Shanty-Man, dead!
Surely, you’re kidding?
No! Off with his head!
Someone please help me, I need an adult!
That’s what you get for joining a cult!
I was asked to go out on a hunt for a duck
Which a merchant from london misheard for a fuck
I thought I’d be safe in the toilets out back
But a Scotsman burst in and showed me his crack
Woah-oh kill the Shanty-Man, dead!
Surely, you’re kidding?
No! Off with his head!
Someone please help me, I need an adult!
That’s what you get for joining a cult!
The horror got worse when they started to chant
For someone had blessed the room with a new shant (new shant!)
So it had to be baptised in the blood of the sinners
And the loud bunch in the corner were the lucky winners
Woah-oh kill the Shanty-Man, dead!
Surely, you’re kidding?
No! Off with his head!
Someone please help me, I need an adult!
That’s what you get for joining a cult!
Now I’m the next one that they want to slay
All ‘cos I asked “where is Mingulay?” (Scotland!)
I’ll get out Redfern on the railroad
Just slip past the crowd before they- oh god, no!
Woah-oh kill the Shanty-Man, dead!
Surely, you’re kidding?
No! Off with his head!
Someone please help me, I need an adult!
That’s what you get for joining a cult!
