Appropriate to give a brief comment on the chorus. For the hearing Russian man he looks like a pirate laughter. In fact the chorus line with our: "One, two, heave!". This exclamation used when the team had to once make some effort.

Judging by the title song, pirate Billy Bones was one of those fifteen, caught in the mess described in the song. Researchers of Stevenson's especially intriguing words "fifteen men on the Dead Man's Chest", which are complete nonsense. Stevenson, on this account does not have any explanation, noting only that this verse is borrowed from the collection of expert on the history of pirates Jeffrey Montague. Assumptions about the meaning of the mysterious words spoken variety, but none of them does not bear serious scrutiny. Since the release of the novel was published in 1883 the pirate song stubbornly kept his secret.

The mystery of "Dead Man's Chest" and fifteen pirates managed to solve only in our time and then by pure chance. English geographer and scholar, a passionate traveler and collector of seashells Quentin Van Marla took a small naval expedition on the Caribbean Sea in the area of Cuba. In his possession was a speedboat, equipped for long walks on the sea. Suddenly stalled motor boats, and all attempts to make him have failed. After seeing the open sea with binoculars, Marla saw on the horizon, a narrow strip of land. Erecting a primitive sail and taking advantage of favorable wind, at dusk Marla reached a small island. Night traveler spent in the boat, after stating their position on the radio rescue service, and at dawn decided to explore the island.

It was deserted, dull rectangular piece of land with an area of 200 square meters. m, rocky, covered with small shrubs, the only inhabitants of which were snakes and lizards, vodivshiesya here in large numbers.
Already on board the rescue ship Marla asked the captain what the name of the island where he spent the night. Reply threw Marla in amazement ... The island is called "Dead Man's Chest! The traveler knew at once that in his hands the key to the mysteries of the songs from the novel "Treasure Island".

Next, Marla took archival searches, reviewed the history of piracy in the Caribbean and detailed biographies of famous pirates. And finally, he found documents which fully confirmed his hunch on the part of the words of pirated songs.

It happened at the beginning of the XVIII century. On a pirate ship "Queen Anne's Revenge", which was commanded by Edward Teach, nicknamed Blackbeard, one of the most dangerous pirate leaders of the Caribbean Sea. Because of the cruelty of the captain mutiny. The rebels are not out of luck. Black beard, was distinguished by great strength and ability to own a gun, locked himself in a cabin, fought off the attackers and quickly crushed the rebellion.

Fifteen particularly active rebel Thich decided to land on an uninhabited island called Dead Man's Chest. Each of the pirates handed a bottle of rum, and then dumped on the beach a bunch of boarding cutlasses. Thich knew that the island has no fresh water, and rum only enhances the desire and, consequently, all the rebels are doomed to a painful death. But the vengeful Tichu was not enough. Knowing the irascible, irrepressible nature of drunkenness pirates, he hoped that they will soon perepyutsya and dispatch one another. After dropping off the rebels on the island, Blackbeard set sail, and soon his ship disappeared over the horizon.

For Billy Bones and his companions came nightmarish days and nights. At Dead Man's Chest was really crowded, as in the trunk. On an elongated rectangle of land the size of 10x20 feet tangled mass of people had no way to escape from the scorching sun, wind and kite.

With the help of Flint sailors have extracted the fire and lit a small fire. Over night in pieces of canvas they collected dew, slightly diluted with sea water and equally divided among themselves, but water still not enough. Of thirst and the scorching sun, many began to wander, and inflammation of the brain of people spawned at night nightmarish monsters like the sea devil Davy Jones.
But contrary to the hopes of Black Beard fights and stabbing between the pirates did not arise. Perhaps this contributed to the authority of Billy Bones. Apparently, it was his and the other a captain instead of Ticha unlucky rebels.
During low tide the island somewhat increased in size, the sea receded, and exhausted, "Robinson collected between corals clams, crabs and turtles. The main food of the same pirates were snakes and lizards. They were killed, gutted, cut into pieces, vyalili the sun and then eaten.

A month later, Thich returned to the Chest. What was his astonishment when, instead of dried-up corpses, he found all his pirates quite alive, though barely that remove the legs from exhaustion. At the request of the team Blackbeard forgiven the rebels, and took them aboard koraodnako.

The story of the fifteen pirates landed on the Dead Man's Chest, quickly spread throughout the Caribbean, and very soon there was a song that tells of the fallen to their share of trials.