If You Want to Stay Alive, then Ante-Up

“Y'all know me. 

Know how I earn a livin'. 

I'll catch this bird for you, 

but it AIN’T gonna be easy—

BAD fish. 

Not like going down the pond 

chasin' bluegills and tommycods. 

THIS SHARK — 

swallow you whole….

Little shakin', little tenderizin', 

an' down you go. 

And we gotta do it QUICK, 

that'll bring back your tourists, 

put all your businesses 

back on a payin' basis. 

But it's NOT gonna 

be pleasant. 

I value my neck a LOT more than 

three thousand BUCKS, Chief!

I'll find  him for three, 

but I'll catch him, 

and kill him, for TEN. 

But you've gotta 

make up your minds —

If you want to Stay Alive,

then ante up;

If you want to play it cheap, 

be on welfare the whole winter. 

I don't want no volunteers, 

I don't want no mates —

There's just too many CAPTAINS 

on this island. 

$10,000 for me, 

by myself. 

For that you get 

the HEAD, 

the TAIL — 

the whole damn THING.”