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To: "warbird" <mailto:warbird@bytehead.com">warbird@bytehead.com> Subject: Re: Date: Wednesday, October 15, 2008 7:42 PM
"I Was Standing One Day By Marblehead Bay...
"I was standing one day by Marblehead Bay Watching the ships go by, When an old sailor said, with a toss of his head, How I wish't I could tell a lie.
I've seen many a sight That would jiggle your lights And they've jiggled me down forsooth, But it ain't worth a darn to be jiggled down When it wanders from the truth.
I was on a bark, the Nancy Spark, Four leagues and a half at sea, When Captain Snook, with a worried look come And he sez to me,
Bos'n Smith! Go make haste And hemstitch the er sail, And accordion pleat the forward sheets For it's going to a gale.
Aye, sez I, and I rushed ahead As the skipper himself would do, Then we hove in low and hit the And murdering lights how it blew.
She blew the tar right off the spars And the spars right off the masts Anchors and sails and kegs of nails All went, by the force of the blast.
The fire blew out the galley stove, The cook from the starboard poop was hove, And the lard blew out of the tins. But all of us feared When it blew the beard Right off of the Captain's chin.
Whew, he said, as he ducked his head And felt around his mouth, We're lost I fear if the wind don't veer And come a bit from the south.
As soon as the words had left his mouth That wind turned round With a hurricane sound And came straight in from the south. It blew the tar back onto the spars And the spars back onto the mast, And anchors and sails and kegs of nails All to the ship stuck fast.
The fire blew back in the galley stove, And blew the cook To the starboard p00p*. (Without even spilling the soup).
Then the lard blew back into the tins And all of us cheered When the beard blew back Onto the Captain's chin.
Oh I've seen many a sight That would jigger your lights And they've jiggered me down forsooth But I ain't worth a darn When telling a yarn When it wanders from the truth.
-By an unidentified poet""
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