ToBE #36: Dead Man's Chest - Literary Connection

Heard about the movie "Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest"?

What is a Dead Man's Chest? Is it the rib-cage of a skeleton? The answer: No!

The "chest" refers to a box (what some people call 'trunk box' - the huge metal storage box in which family antiques are kept!). The chest in question contained stolen treasures and the person who had the chest is now dead. This is as per RL Stevenson's classic, "Treasure Island".

As the pirates' song in the novel goes, "Fifteen men on a dead man's chest, with a 'yo-ho-ho' and a bottle of rum" and this is the inspiration to the movie's name.

For the next two lines of the song, read: http://www.poetry-online.org/stevenson_fifteen_men_on_the_dead_mans_chest.htm or http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Man's_Chest.