The Dei Gratia was sailing,
Sailing in the Atlantic
When they saw a ship,
Saw a ship near the Azores.
It looked untidy,
Nobody could be seen on it
So a boat was sent,
And there on board
There was nobody.
All seemed in order,
No evidence of fighting,
All equipment was there,
Except the lifeboat!
But what had happened
Nobody knew,
And since that day
Fourth of December eighteen seventy two,
And even today
Still no one knows,
Nobody knows what happened.
The people who were on her
Have never been seen,
Those people who were on that ship,
Were on the Mary Celeste.