Shiver Me Timbers -- or Shiver My Timbers

So, I got to thinking about the new Treasure Island movies I mentioned a few days ago. I couldn't help thinking about the Muppet Treasure Island and the "Shiver My Timbers song."

"Shiver my timbers" was most famously popularized by the pirate Long John Silver in Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island (1883). Silver used the phrase seven times, as well as variations such as "shiver my sides", "shiver my soul" and "shake up your timbers".

According to Wikipedia, the phrase is based on real nautical slang and is a reference to the timbers, which are the wooden support frames of a ship. "In heavy seas, ships would be lifted up and pounded down so hard as to "shiver" the timbers, startling the sailors. Such an exclamation was meant to convey a feeling of fear and awe, similar to, "Well Blow Me Down!", or, "May God Strike Me Dead". Shiver is also reminiscent of the splintering of a ship's timbers in battle - splinter wounds were a common form of battle injury on wooden ships ('shiver' means splinter in some English dialects)."

Shiver me Timbers, enjoy this youtube video.