Sailor's Songs & Poems ---------------- Feel free to add your favorite one - SeaKnots2024-03-29T08:29:10Zhttp://seaknots.ning.com/forum/topics/sailors-songs-poems?x=1&id=900123%3ATopic%3A118907&feed=yes&xn_auth=noDerelict" was a composition b…tag:seaknots.ning.com,2010-07-16:900123:Comment:1361172010-07-16T20:46:21.726ZSteve Knighthttp://seaknots.ning.com/profile/SteveKnight
Derelict" was a composition by Young E. Allison in 1891, nine years after Treasure Island was published. It is based on Stevenson's 4-line genesis of the shanty "Dead Man's Chest" from Treasure Island. "Derelict" is also variously known as Dead Man's Chest, Yo Ho Ho and Fifteen Men On A Dead Man's Chest. It has been so often imitated and derived from that it is often mistaken to be the original song from Treasure Island.<br />
<br />
Fifteen men on a dead man's chest<br />
Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum<br />
Drink and…
Derelict" was a composition by Young E. Allison in 1891, nine years after Treasure Island was published. It is based on Stevenson's 4-line genesis of the shanty "Dead Man's Chest" from Treasure Island. "Derelict" is also variously known as Dead Man's Chest, Yo Ho Ho and Fifteen Men On A Dead Man's Chest. It has been so often imitated and derived from that it is often mistaken to be the original song from Treasure Island.<br />
<br />
Fifteen men on a dead man's chest<br />
Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum<br />
Drink and the devil had done for the rest<br />
Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum<br />
The mate was fixed by the bosun's pike<br />
The bosun brained with a marlinespike<br />
And cookey's throat was marked belike<br />
It had been gripped by fingers ten;<br />
And there they lay, all good dead men<br />
Like break o'day in a boozing ken<br />
Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum!<br />
<br />
Fifteen men of a whole ship's list<br />
Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum!<br />
Dead and be damned and the rest gone whist!<br />
Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum!<br />
The skipper lay with his nob in gore<br />
Where the scullion's axe his cheek had shore<br />
And the scullion he was stabbed times four<br />
And there they lay and the soggy skies<br />
Dripped all day long in up-staring eyes<br />
At murk sunset and at foul sunrise<br />
Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum!<br />
<br />
Fifteen men of 'em stiff and stark<br />
Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum!<br />
Ten of the crew had the murder mark!<br />
Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum!<br />
'Twas a cutlass swipe or an ounce of lead<br />
Or a yawing hole in a battered head<br />
And the scuppers glut with a rotting red<br />
And there they lay, aye, damn my eyes,<br />
All lookouts clapped on Paradise<br />
All souls bound just contrawise<br />
Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum!<br />
<br />
Fifteen men of 'em good and true -<br />
Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum!<br />
Ev'ry man jack could ha' sailed with Old Pew,<br />
Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum!<br />
There was chest on chest full of Spanish gold<br />
With a ton of plate in the middle hold<br />
And the cabins riot of loot untold,<br />
And they lay there that had took the plum<br />
With sightless glare and their lips struck dumb<br />
While we shared all by the rule of thumb,<br />
Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum!<br />
<br />
More was seen through the sternlight screen...<br />
Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum<br />
Chartings no doubt where a woman had been<br />
Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum.<br />
A flimsy shift on a bunker cot<br />
With a thin dirk slot through the bosom spot<br />
And the lace stiff dry in a purplish blot<br />
Oh was she wench, some shudderin' maid<br />
That dared the knife and took the blade<br />
By God! she was stuff for a plucky jade<br />
Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum!<br />
<br />
Fifteen men on a dead man's chest<br />
Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum<br />
Drink and the devil had done for the rest<br />
Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum.<br />
We wrapped 'em all in a mains'l tight<br />
With twice ten turns of a hawser's bight<br />
And we heaved 'em over and out of sight,<br />
With a "Yo-Heave-Ho!" and "Fare-you-well!"<br />
And a sudden plunge in the sullen swell<br />
Ten fathoms deep on the road to Hell,<br />
Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum! I watched the sunset over the…tag:seaknots.ning.com,2010-07-14:900123:Comment:1359002010-07-14T11:12:07.113ZTerrihttp://seaknots.ning.com/profile/Terri28
I watched the sunset over the horizon<br />
<br />
behind me, was a full moon rising<br />
<br />
deep in thought, sitting in the sand<br />
<br />
feeling the land sift through my hand<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
so peaceful on my face was the ocean breeze<br />
<br />
a spiritual calm , that put me at ease<br />
<br />
the evening was upon me , the stars in the skies<br />
<br />
the only thing missing, the smile from your eyes<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
missing this moment, being apart from you<br />
<br />
Your with me in spirit so I'll never be blue<br />
<br />
I love you I do , no more I can say<br />
<br />
I give you my heart, each and…
I watched the sunset over the horizon<br />
<br />
behind me, was a full moon rising<br />
<br />
deep in thought, sitting in the sand<br />
<br />
feeling the land sift through my hand<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
so peaceful on my face was the ocean breeze<br />
<br />
a spiritual calm , that put me at ease<br />
<br />
the evening was upon me , the stars in the skies<br />
<br />
the only thing missing, the smile from your eyes<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
missing this moment, being apart from you<br />
<br />
Your with me in spirit so I'll never be blue<br />
<br />
I love you I do , no more I can say<br />
<br />
I give you my heart, each and every day<br />
<br />
(Posted w/video from somebody on my FB account) The Naval Prayer
O Eternal Lo…tag:seaknots.ning.com,2010-04-03:900123:Comment:1291402010-04-03T22:19:43.777ZJeff Hornsbyhttp://seaknots.ning.com/profile/JeffHornsby
The Naval Prayer<br />
O Eternal Lord God,<br />
who<br />
and rulest the raging of the sea;<br />
who has compassed the waters with bounds<br />
until day and night come to an end;<br />
be pleased to receive into Thy almighty and most gracious protection<br />
the persons of us Thy servants,<br />
and the Fleet in which we serve.<br />
<br />
Preserve us from the dangers of the sea,<br />
and from the violence of the enemy;<br />
that we may be a safeguard unto our most gracious Sovereign Lady,<br />
Queen Elizabeth,<br />
and her Dominions,<br />
and a security for such as pass…
The Naval Prayer<br />
O Eternal Lord God,<br />
who<br />
and rulest the raging of the sea;<br />
who has compassed the waters with bounds<br />
until day and night come to an end;<br />
be pleased to receive into Thy almighty and most gracious protection<br />
the persons of us Thy servants,<br />
and the Fleet in which we serve.<br />
<br />
Preserve us from the dangers of the sea,<br />
and from the violence of the enemy;<br />
that we may be a safeguard unto our most gracious Sovereign Lady,<br />
Queen Elizabeth,<br />
and her Dominions,<br />
and a security for such as pass upon the seas upon their lawful occasions;<br />
that the inhabitants of our Commonwealth may in peace and quietness<br />
serve Thee our God;<br />
and that we may return in safety<br />
to enjoy the blessings of the land,<br />
with the fruits of our labours,<br />
and with a thankful remembrance of Thy mercies<br />
to praise and glorify Thy Holy Name;<br />
Amen.<br />
<br />
First published in 1662 in the Book of Common Prayer,<br />
The Naval Prayer has remained mostly unchanged since then,<br />
with the exception of a change to the name of the monarch ,<br />
the change from "Empire" to "Commonwealth", a more recent<br />
deletion of the phrase "though Jesus Christ ourt Lord near the end." Heart of Oak
British/Canadian…tag:seaknots.ning.com,2010-04-03:900123:Comment:1291392010-04-03T22:14:19.338ZJeff Hornsbyhttp://seaknots.ning.com/profile/JeffHornsby
Heart of Oak<br />
British/Canadian seafaring song<br />
<br />
Come cheer up m'lads<br />
tis to glory we steer<br />
to add something new to this wonderful year<br />
tis to honour we call<br />
you as free men not slaves<br />
for who are so free as the sons of the waves<br />
<br />
Heart of oak our ships<br />
jolly tars our men<br />
we always are ready<br />
steady boys steady<br />
We'll fignt and we'll conquer again<br />
and again
Heart of Oak<br />
British/Canadian seafaring song<br />
<br />
Come cheer up m'lads<br />
tis to glory we steer<br />
to add something new to this wonderful year<br />
tis to honour we call<br />
you as free men not slaves<br />
for who are so free as the sons of the waves<br />
<br />
Heart of oak our ships<br />
jolly tars our men<br />
we always are ready<br />
steady boys steady<br />
We'll fignt and we'll conquer again<br />
and again "Rime of the Ancient Mariner"…tag:seaknots.ning.com,2010-04-01:900123:Comment:1289962010-04-01T07:52:41.078ZSteve Knighthttp://seaknots.ning.com/profile/SteveKnight
"Rime of the Ancient Mariner"<br />
by Samuel Taylor Coleridge<br />
<br />
<br />
It is an ancient Mariner,<br />
And he stoppeth one of three.<br />
"By thy long grey beard and glittering eye,<br />
Now wherefore stopp'st thou me?<br />
The bridegroom's doors are opened wide,<br />
And I am next of kin;<br />
The guests are met, the feast is set:<br />
May'st hear the merry din."<br />
He holds him with his skinny hand,<br />
"There was a ship," quoth he.<br />
"Hold off! unhand me, grey-beard loon!"<br />
Eftsoons his hand dropt he.<br />
He holds him with his glittering eye--<br />
The…
"Rime of the Ancient Mariner"<br />
by Samuel Taylor Coleridge<br />
<br />
<br />
It is an ancient Mariner,<br />
And he stoppeth one of three.<br />
"By thy long grey beard and glittering eye,<br />
Now wherefore stopp'st thou me?<br />
The bridegroom's doors are opened wide,<br />
And I am next of kin;<br />
The guests are met, the feast is set:<br />
May'st hear the merry din."<br />
He holds him with his skinny hand,<br />
"There was a ship," quoth he.<br />
"Hold off! unhand me, grey-beard loon!"<br />
Eftsoons his hand dropt he.<br />
He holds him with his glittering eye--<br />
The Wedding-Guest stood still,<br />
And listens like a three years' child:<br />
The Mariner hath his will.<br />
The Wedding-Guest sat on a stone:<br />
He cannot choose but hear;<br />
And thus spake on that ancient man,<br />
The bright-eyed Mariner.<br />
"The ship was cheered, the harbor cleared,<br />
Merrily did we drop<br />
Below the kirk, below the hill,<br />
Below the lighthouse top.<br />
The sun came up upon the left,<br />
Out of the sea came he!<br />
And he shone bright, and on the right<br />
Went down into the sea.<br />
Higher and higher every day,<br />
Till over the mast at noon--"<br />
The Wedding-Guest here beat his breast,<br />
For he heard the loud bassoon.<br />
The bride hath paced into the hall,<br />
Red as a rose is she;<br />
Nodding their heads before her goes<br />
The merry minstrelsy.<br />
The Wedding-Guest he beat his breast,<br />
Yet he cannot choose but hear;<br />
And thus spake on that ancient man,<br />
The bright-eyed Mariner.<br />
"And now the Storm-blast came, and he<br />
Was tyrannous and strong:<br />
He struck with his o'ertaking wings,<br />
And chased us south along.<br />
With sloping masts and dipping prow,<br />
As who pursued with yell and blow<br />
Still treads the shadow of his foe,<br />
And forward bends his head,<br />
The ship drove fast, loud roared the blast,<br />
And southward aye we fled.<br />
And now there came both mist and snow,<br />
And it grew wondrous cold:<br />
And ice, mast-high, came floating by,<br />
As green as emerald.<br />
And through the drifts the snowy clifts<br />
Did send a dismal sheen:<br />
Nor shapes of men nor beasts we ken--<br />
The ice was all between.<br />
The ice was here, the ice was there,<br />
The ice was all around:<br />
It cracked and growled, and roared and howled,<br />
Like noises in a swound!<br />
At length did cross an Albatross,<br />
Thorough the fog it came;<br />
As if it had been a Christian soul,<br />
We hailed it in God's name.<br />
It ate the food it ne'er had eat,<br />
And round and round it flew.<br />
The ice did split with a thunder-fit;<br />
The helmsman steered us through!<br />
And a good south wind sprung up behind;<br />
The Albatross did follow,<br />
And every day, for food or play,<br />
Came to the mariners' hollo!<br />
In mist or cloud, on mast or shroud,<br />
It perched for vespers nine;<br />
Whiles all the night, through fog-smoke white,<br />
Glimmered the white moon-shine."<br />
"God save thee, ancient Mariner!<br />
From the fiends, that plague thee thus!--<br />
Why look'st thou so?"--"With my cross-bow<br />
I shot the Albatross.<br />
The Sun now rose upon the right:<br />
Out of the sea came he,<br />
Still hid in mist, and on the left<br />
Went down into the sea.<br />
And the good south wind still blew behind,<br />
But no sweet bird did follow,<br />
Nor any day for food or play<br />
Came to the mariners' hollo!<br />
And I had done a hellish thing,<br />
And it would work 'em woe:<br />
For all averred, I had killed the bird<br />
That made the breeze to blow.<br />
Ah wretch! said they, the bird to slay,<br />
That made the breeze to blow!<br />
Nor dim nor red, like God's own head,<br />
The glorious Sun uprist:<br />
Then all averred, I had killed the bird<br />
That brought the fog and mist.<br />
'Twas right, said they, such birds to slay,<br />
That bring the fog and mist.<br />
The fair breeze blew, the white foam flew,<br />
The furrow followed free;<br />
We were the first that ever burst<br />
Into that silent sea.<br />
Down dropt the breeze, the sails dropt down,<br />
'Twas sad as sad could be;<br />
And we did speak only to break<br />
The silence of the sea!<br />
All in a hot and copper sky,<br />
The bloody Sun, at noon,<br />
Right up above the mast did stand,<br />
No bigger than the Moon.<br />
Day after day, day after day,<br />
We stuck, nor breath nor motion;<br />
As idle as a painted ship<br />
Upon a painted ocean.<br />
Water, water, every where,<br />
And all the boards did shrink;<br />
Water, water, every where<br />
Nor any drop to drink.<br />
The very deep did rot: O Christ!<br />
That ever this should be!<br />
Yea, slimy things did crawl with legs<br />
Upon the slimy sea.<br />
About, about, in reel and rout<br />
The death-fires danced at night;<br />
The water, like a witch's oils,<br />
Burnt green, and blue and white.<br />
And some in dreams assured were<br />
Of the Spirit that plagued us so;<br />
Nine fathom deep he had followed us<br />
From the land of mist and snow.<br />
And every tongue, through utter drought,<br />
Was withered at the root;<br />
We could not speak, no more than if<br />
We had been choked with soot.<br />
Ah! well-a-day! what evil looks<br />
Had I from old and young!<br />
Instead of the cross, the Albatross<br />
About my neck was hung.<br />
There passed a weary time. Each throat<br />
Was parched, and glazed each eye.<br />
A weary time! a weary time!<br />
How glazed each weary eye,<br />
When looking westward, I beheld<br />
A something in the sky.<br />
At first it seemed a little speck,<br />
And then it seemed a mist;<br />
It moved and moved, and took at last<br />
A certain shape, I wist.<br />
A speck, a mist, a shape, I wist!<br />
And still it neared and neared:<br />
As if it dodged a water-sprite,<br />
It plunged and tacked and veered.<br />
With throats unslaked, with black lips baked,<br />
We could nor laugh nor wail;<br />
Through utter drought all dumb we stood!<br />
I bit my arm, I sucked the blood,<br />
And cried, A sail! a sail!<br />
With throats unslaked, with black lips baked,<br />
Agape they heard me call:<br />
Gramercy! they for joy did grin,<br />
And all at once their breath drew in,<br />
As they were drinking all.<br />
See! see! (I cried) she tacks no more!<br />
Hither to work us weal;<br />
Without a breeze, without a tide,<br />
She steadies with upright keel!<br />
There passed a weary time. Each throat<br />
Was parched, and glazed each eye.<br />
A weary time! a weary time!<br />
How glazed each weary eye,<br />
When looking westward, I beheld<br />
A something in the sky.<br />
At first it seemed a little speck,<br />
And then it seemed a mist;<br />
It moved and moved, and took at last<br />
A certain shape, I wist.<br />
A speck, a mist, a shape, I wist!<br />
And still it neared and neared:<br />
As if it dodged a water-sprite,<br />
It plunged and tacked and veered.<br />
With throats unslaked, with black lips baked,<br />
We could nor laugh nor wail;<br />
Through utter drought all dumb we stood!<br />
I bit my arm, I sucked the blood,<br />
And cried, A sail! a sail!<br />
With throats unslaked, with black lips baked,<br />
Agape they heard me call:<br />
Gramercy! they for joy did grin,<br />
And all at once their breath drew in,<br />
As they were drinking all.<br />
See! see! (I cried) she tacks no more!<br />
Hither to work us weal;<br />
Without a breeze, without a tide,<br />
She steadies with upright keel!<br />
There passed a weary time. Each throat<br />
Was parched, and glazed each eye.<br />
A weary time! a weary time!<br />
How glazed each weary eye,<br />
When looking westward, I beheld<br />
A something in the sky.<br />
At first it seemed a little speck,<br />
And then it seemed a mist;<br />
It moved and moved, and took at last<br />
A certain shape, I wist.<br />
A speck, a mist, a shape, I wist!<br />
And still it neared and neared:<br />
As if it dodged a water-sprite,<br />
It plunged and tacked and veered.<br />
With throats unslaked, with black lips baked,<br />
We could nor laugh nor wail;<br />
Through utter drought all dumb we stood!<br />
I bit my arm, I sucked the blood,<br />
And cried, A sail! a sail!<br />
With throats unslaked, with black lips baked,<br />
Agape they heard me call:<br />
Gramercy! they for joy did grin,<br />
And all at once their breath drew in,<br />
As they were drinking all.<br />
See! see! (I cried) she tacks no more!<br />
Hither to work us weal;<br />
Without a breeze, without a tide,<br />
She steadies with upright keel!<br />
The western wave was all a-flame.<br />
The day was well nigh done!<br />
Almost upon the western wave<br />
Rested the broad bright Sun;<br />
When that strange shape drove suddenly<br />
Betwixt us and the Sun;<br />
And straight the Sun was flecked with bars,<br />
(Heaven's Mother send us grace!)<br />
As if through a dungeon-grate he peered<br />
With broad and burning face.<br />
Alas (thought I, and my heart beat loud)<br />
How fast she nears and nears!<br />
Are those her sails that glance in the Sun,<br />
Like restless gossameres?<br />
Are those her ribs through which the Sun<br />
Did peer, as through a grate?<br />
And is that Woman all her crew?<br />
Is that a Death? and are there two?<br />
Is Death that woman's mate?<br />
Her lips were red, her looks were free,<br />
Her locks were yellow as gold:<br />
Her skin was as white as leprosy,<br />
The Night-mare Life-in-Death was she,<br />
Who thicks man's blood with cold.<br />
The naked hulk alongside came,<br />
And the twain were casting dice;<br />
'The game is done! I've won! I've won!'<br />
Quoth she, and whistles thrice.<br />
The Sun's rim dips; the stars rush out;<br />
At one stride comes the dark;<br />
With far-heard whisper, o'er the sea,<br />
Off shot the spectre-bark.<br />
We listened and looked sideways up!<br />
Fear at my heart, as at a cup,<br />
My life-blood seemed to sip!<br />
The stars were dim, and thick the night,<br />
The steersman's face by his lamp gleamed white;<br />
From the sails the dew did drip--<br />
Till clomb above the eastern bar<br />
The horned Moon, with one bright star<br />
Within the nether tip.<br />
One after one, by the star-dogged Moon,<br />
Too quick for groan or sigh,<br />
Each turned his face with a ghastly pang,<br />
And cursed me with his eye.<br />
Four times fifty living men,<br />
(And I heard nor sigh nor groan)<br />
With heavy thump, a lifeless lump,<br />
They dropped down one by one.<br />
The souls did from their bodies fly,--<br />
They fled to bliss or woe!<br />
And every soul, it passed me by,<br />
Like the whizz of my cross-bow!"<br />
"I Fear thee, ancient Mariner!<br />
I fear thy skinny hand!<br />
And thou art long, and lank, and brown,<br />
As is the ribbed sea-sand.<br />
I fear thee and thy glittering eye,<br />
And thy skinny hand, so brown."--<br />
"Fear me not, fear not, thou wedding-guest!<br />
This body dropt not down.<br />
Alone, alone, all, all alone,<br />
Alone on the wide, wide sea!<br />
And never a saint took pity on<br />
My soul in agony.<br />
The many men, so beautiful!<br />
And they all dead did lie:<br />
And a thousand thousand slimy things<br />
Lived on; and so did I.<br />
I looked upon the rotting sea,<br />
And drew my eyes away;<br />
I looked upon the rotting deck,<br />
And there the dead men lay.<br />
I looked to heaven, and tried to pray;<br />
But or ever a prayer had gusht,<br />
A wicked whisper came, and made<br />
My heart as dry as dust.<br />
I closed my lids, and kept them close,<br />
And the balls like pulses beat;<br />
For the sky and the sea, and the sea and the sky<br />
Lay like a load on my weary eye,<br />
And the dead were at my feet.<br />
The cold sweat melted from their limbs,<br />
Nor rot nor reek did they:<br />
The look with which they looked on me<br />
Had never passed away.<br />
An orphan's curse would drag to hell<br />
A spirit from on high;<br />
But oh! more horrible than that<br />
Is a curse in a dead man's eye!<br />
Seven days, seven nights, I saw that curse,<br />
And yet I could not die.<br />
The moving Moon went up the sky,<br />
And nowhere did abide:<br />
Softly she was going up,<br />
And a star or two beside--<br />
Her beams bemocked the sultry main,<br />
Like April hoar-frost spread;<br />
But where the ship's huge shadow lay,<br />
The charmed water burnt alway<br />
A still and awful red.<br />
Beyond the shadow of the ship,<br />
I watched the water-snakes:<br />
They moved in tracks of shining white,<br />
And when they reared, the elfish light<br />
Fell off in hoary flakes.<br />
I closed my lids, and kept them close,<br />
And the balls like pulses beat;<br />
For the sky and the sea, and the sea and the sky<br />
Lay like a load on my weary eye,<br />
And the dead were at my feet.<br />
The cold sweat melted from their limbs,<br />
Nor rot nor reek did they:<br />
The look with which they looked on me<br />
Had never passed away.<br />
An orphan's curse would drag to hell<br />
A spirit from on high;<br />
But oh! more horrible than that<br />
Is a curse in a dead man's eye!<br />
Seven days, seven nights, I saw that curse,<br />
And yet I could not die.<br />
The moving Moon went up the sky,<br />
And nowhere did abide:<br />
Softly she was going up,<br />
And a star or two beside--<br />
Her beams bemocked the sultry main,<br />
Like April hoar-frost spread;<br />
But where the ship's huge shadow lay,<br />
The charmed water burnt alway<br />
A still and awful red.<br />
Beyond the shadow of the ship,<br />
I watched the water-snakes:<br />
They moved in tracks of shining white,<br />
And when they reared, the elfish light<br />
Fell off in hoary flakes.<br />
I closed my lids, and kept them close,<br />
And the balls like pulses beat;<br />
For the sky and the sea, and the sea and the sky<br />
Lay like a load on my weary eye,<br />
And the dead were at my feet.<br />
The cold sweat melted from their limbs,<br />
Nor rot nor reek did they:<br />
The look with which they looked on me<br />
Had never passed away.<br />
An orphan's curse would drag to hell<br />
A spirit from on high;<br />
But oh! more horrible than that<br />
Is a curse in a dead man's eye!<br />
Seven days, seven nights, I saw that curse,<br />
And yet I could not die.<br />
The moving Moon went up the sky,<br />
And nowhere did abide:<br />
Softly she was going up,<br />
And a star or two beside--<br />
Her beams bemocked the sultry main,<br />
Like April hoar-frost spread;<br />
But where the ship's huge shadow lay,<br />
The charmed water burnt alway<br />
A still and awful red.<br />
Beyond the shadow of the ship,<br />
I watched the water-snakes:<br />
They moved in tracks of shining white,<br />
And when they reared, the elfish light<br />
Fell off in hoary flakes.<br />
Within the shadow of the ship<br />
I watched their rich attire:<br />
Blue, glossy green, and velvet black,<br />
They coiled and swam; and every track<br />
Was a flash of golden fire.<br />
O happy living things! no tongue<br />
Their beauty might declare:<br />
A spring of love gushed from my heart,<br />
And I blessed them unaware:<br />
Sure my kind saint took pity on me,<br />
And I blessed them unaware.<br />
The selfsame moment I could pray;<br />
And from my neck so free<br />
The Albatross fell off, and sank<br />
Like lead into the sea.<br />
Oh sleep! it is a gentle thing,<br />
Beloved from pole to pole!<br />
To Mary Queen the praise be given!<br />
She sent the gentle sleep from Heaven,<br />
That slid into my soul.<br />
The silly buckets on the deck,<br />
That had so long remained,<br />
I dreamt that they were filled with dew;<br />
And when I awoke, it rained.<br />
My lips were wet, my throat was cold,<br />
My garments all were dank;<br />
Sure I had drunken in my dreams,<br />
And still my body drank.<br />
I moved, and could not feel my limbs:<br />
I was so light--almost<br />
I thought that I had died in sleep,<br />
And was a blessed ghost.<br />
And soon I heard a roaring wind:<br />
It did not come anear;<br />
But with its sound it shook the sails,<br />
That were so thin and sere.<br />
The upper air burst into life!<br />
And a hundred fire-flags sheen,<br />
To and fro they were hurried about!<br />
And to and fro, and in and out,<br />
The wan stars danced between.<br />
And the coming wind did roar more loud,<br />
And the sails did sigh like sedge;<br />
And the rain poured down from one black cloud;<br />
The Moon was at its edge.<br />
The thick black cloud was cleft, and still<br />
The Moon was at its side.<br />
Like waters shot from some high crag,<br />
The lightning fell with never a jag,<br />
And a river steep and wide.<br />
The loud wind never reached the ship,<br />
Yet now the ship moved on!<br />
Beneath the lightning and the Moon<br />
The dead men gave a groan.<br />
They groaned, they stirred, they all uprose,<br />
Nor spake, nor moved their eyes;<br />
It had been strange, even in a dream,<br />
To have seen those dead men rise.<br />
The helmsman steered, the ship moved on;<br />
Yet never a breeze up blew;<br />
The mariners all 'gan work the ropes,<br />
Where they were wont to do;<br />
They raised their limbs like lifeless tools--<br />
We were a ghastly crew.<br />
The body of my brother's son<br />
Stood by me, knee to knee:<br />
The body and I pulled at one rope,<br />
But he said nought to me."<br />
"I fear thee, ancient Mariner!"<br />
"Be calm, thou Wedding-Guest!<br />
'Twas not those souls that fled in pain,<br />
Which to their corses came again,<br />
But a troop of spirits blest:<br />
For when it dawned--they dropped their arms,<br />
And clustered round the mast;<br />
Sweet sounds rose slowly through their mouths,<br />
And from their bodies passed.<br />
Around, around, flew each sweet sound,<br />
Then darted to the Sun;<br />
Slowly the sounds came back again,<br />
Now mixed, now one by one.<br />
Sometimes a-dropping from the sky<br />
I heard the sky-lark sing;<br />
Sometimes all little birds that are,<br />
How they seemed to fill the sea and air<br />
With their sweet jargoning!<br />
And now 'twas like all instruments,<br />
Now like a lonely flute;<br />
And now it is an angel's song,<br />
That makes the heavens be mute.<br />
It ceased; yet still the sails made on<br />
A pleasant noise till noon,<br />
A noise like of a hidden brook<br />
In the leafy month of June,<br />
That to the sleeping woods all night<br />
Singeth a quiet tune.<br />
Till noon we quietly sailed on,<br />
Yet never a breeze did breathe:<br />
Slowly and smoothly went the ship,<br />
Moved onward from beneath.<br />
Under the keel nine fathom deep,<br />
From the land of mist and snow,<br />
The spirit slid: and it was he<br />
That made the ship to go.<br />
The sails at noon left off their tune,<br />
And the ship stood still also.<br />
The Sun, right up above the mast,<br />
Had fixed her to the ocean:<br />
But in a minute she 'gan stir,<br />
With a short uneasy motion--<br />
Backwards and forwards half her length<br />
With a short uneasy motion.<br />
Then like a pawing horse let go,<br />
She made a sudden bound:<br />
It flung the blood into my head,<br />
And I fell down in a swound.<br />
How long in that same fit I lay,<br />
I have not to declare;<br />
But ere my living life returned,<br />
I heard and in my soul discerned<br />
Two voices in the air.<br />
'Is it he?' quoth one, 'Is this the man?<br />
By him who died on cross,<br />
With his cruel bow he laid full low<br />
The harmless Albatross.<br />
The spirit who bideth by himself<br />
In the land of mist and snow,<br />
He loved the bird that loved the man<br />
Who shot him with his bow?'<br />
The other was a softer voice,<br />
As soft as honey-dew:<br />
Quoth he, 'The man hath penance done,<br />
And penance more will do.'<br />
FIRST VOICE<br />
'But tell me, tell me! speak again,<br />
Thy soft response renewing--<br />
What makes that ship drive on so fast?<br />
What is the ocean doing?'<br />
SECOND VOICE<br />
'Still as a slave before his lord,<br />
The ocean hath no blast;<br />
His great bright eye most silently<br />
Up to the Moon is cast--<br />
If he may know which way to go;<br />
For she guides him smooth or grim.<br />
See, brother, see! how graciously<br />
She looketh down on him.'<br />
FIRST VOICE<br />
'But why drives on that ship so fast?<br />
Without or wave or wind?'<br />
SECOND VOICE<br />
'The air is cut away before,<br />
And closes from behind.<br />
Fly, brother, fly! more high, more high!<br />
Or we shall be belated:<br />
For slow and slow that ship will go,<br />
When the Mariner's trance is abated.<br />
I woke, and we were sailing on<br />
As in a gentle weather:<br />
'Twas night, calm night, the moon was high,<br />
The dead men stood together.<br />
All stood together on the deck,<br />
For a charnel-dungeon fitter:<br />
All fixed on me their stony eyes,<br />
That in the Moon did glitter.<br />
The pang, the curse, with which they died,<br />
Had never passed away:<br />
I could not draw my eyes from theirs,<br />
Nor turn them up to pray.<br />
And now this spell was snapt: once more<br />
I viewed the ocean green,<br />
And looked far forth, yet little saw<br />
Of what had else been seen--<br />
Like one, that on a lonesome road<br />
Doth walk in fear and dread,<br />
And having once turned round walks on,<br />
And turns no more his head;<br />
Because he knows, a frightful fiend<br />
Doth close behind him tread.<br />
But soon there breathed a wind on me,<br />
Nor sound nor motion made:<br />
Its path was not upon the sea,<br />
In ripple or in shade.<br />
It raised my hair, it fanned my cheek<br />
Like a meadow-gale of spring--<br />
It mingled strangely with my fears,<br />
Yet it felt like a welcoming.<br />
Swiftly, swiftly flew the ship,<br />
Yet she sailed softly too:<br />
Sweetly, sweetly blew the breeze--<br />
On me alone it blew.<br />
Oh! dream of joy! is this indeed<br />
The light-house top I see?<br />
Is this the hill? is this the kirk?<br />
Is this mine own countree?<br />
We drifted o'er the harbor-bar,<br />
And I with sobs did pray--<br />
O let me be awake, my God!<br />
Or let me sleep alway.<br />
The harbor-bay was clear as glass,<br />
So smoothly it was strewn!<br />
And on the bay the moonlight lay,<br />
And the shadow of the Moon.<br />
The rock shone bright, the kirk no less,<br />
That stands above the rock:<br />
The moonlight steeped in silentness<br />
The steady weathercock.<br />
And the bay was white with silent light<br />
Till rising from the same,<br />
Full many shapes, that shadows were,<br />
In crimson colors came.<br />
A little distance from the prow<br />
Those crimson shadows were:<br />
I turned my eyes upon the deck--<br />
Oh, Christ! what saw I there!<br />
Each corse lay flat, lifeless and flat,<br />
And, by the holy rood!<br />
A man all light, a seraph-man,<br />
On every corse there stood.<br />
This seraph-band, each waved his hand:<br />
It was a heavenly sight!<br />
They stood as signals to the land,<br />
Each one a lovely light;<br />
This seraph-band, each waved his hand,<br />
No voice did they impart--<br />
No voice; but oh! the silence sank<br />
Like music on my heart.<br />
But soon I heard the dash of oars,<br />
I heard the Pilot's cheer;<br />
My head was turned perforce away,<br />
And I saw a boat appear.<br />
The Pilot and the Pilot's boy,<br />
I heard them coming fast:<br />
Dear Lord in Heaven! it was a joy<br />
The dead men could not blast.<br />
I saw a third--I heard his voice:<br />
It is the Hermit good!<br />
He singeth loud his godly hymns<br />
That he makes in the wood.<br />
He'll shrieve my soul, he'll wash away<br />
The Albatross's blood.<br />
This Hermit good lives in that wood<br />
Which slopes down to the sea.<br />
How loudly his sweet voice he rears!<br />
He loves to talk with marineres<br />
That come from a far countree.<br />
He kneels at morn, and noon, and eve--<br />
He hath a cushion plump:<br />
It is the moss that wholly hides<br />
The rotted old oak-stump.<br />
The skiff-board neared: I heard them talk,<br />
'Why, this is strange, I trow!<br />
Where are those lights, so many and fair,<br />
That signal made but now?'<br />
'Strange, by my faith!' the Hermit said--<br />
'And they answered not our cheer!<br />
The planks looked warped! and see those sails,<br />
How thin they are and sere!<br />
I never saw aught like to them,<br />
Unless perchance it were<br />
Brown skeletons of leaves that lag<br />
My forest-brook along;<br />
When the ivy-tod is heavy with snow,<br />
And the owlet whoops to the wolf below,<br />
That eats the she-wolf's young.'<br />
'Dear Lord! it hath a fiendish look--<br />
(The Pilot made reply)<br />
I am a-feared'--'Push on, push on!'<br />
Said the Hermit cheerily.<br />
The boat came closer to the ship,<br />
But I nor spake nor stirred;<br />
The boat came close beneath the ship,<br />
And straight a sound was heard.<br />
Under the water it rumbled on,<br />
Still louder and more dread:<br />
It reached the ship, it split the bay;<br />
The ship went down like lead.<br />
Stunned by that loud and dreadful sound,<br />
Which sky and ocean smote,<br />
Like one that hath been seven days drowned<br />
My body lay afloat;<br />
But swift as dreams, myself I found<br />
Within the Pilot's boat.<br />
Upon the whirl, where sank the ship,<br />
The boat spun round and round;<br />
And all was still, save that the hill<br />
Was telling of the sound.<br />
I moved my lips--the Pilot shrieked<br />
And fell down in a fit;<br />
The holy Hermit raised his eyes,<br />
And prayed where he did sit.<br />
I took the oars: the Pilot's boy,<br />
Who now doth crazy go,<br />
Laughed loud and long, and all the while<br />
His eyes went to and fro.<br />
'Ha! ha!' quoth he, 'full plain I see,<br />
The Devil knows how to row.'<br />
And now, all in my own countree,<br />
I stood on the firm land!<br />
The Hermit stepped forth from the boat,<br />
And scarcely he could stand.<br />
'O shrieve me, shrieve me, holy man!'<br />
The Hermit crossed his brow.<br />
'Say quick,' quoth he, 'I bid thee say--<br />
What manner of man art thou?'<br />
Forthwith this frame of mine was wrenched<br />
With a woful agony,<br />
Which forced me to begin my tale;<br />
And then it left me free.<br />
Since then, at an uncertain hour,<br />
That agony returns:<br />
And till my ghastly tale is told,<br />
This heart within me burns.<br />
I pass, like night, from land to land;<br />
I have strange power of speech;<br />
That moment that his face I see,<br />
I know the man that must hear me:<br />
To him my tale I teach.<br />
What loud uproar bursts from that door!<br />
The wedding-guests are there:<br />
But in the garden-bower the bride<br />
And bride-maids singing are:<br />
And hark the little vesper bell,<br />
Which biddeth me to prayer!<br />
O Wedding-Guest! this soul hath been<br />
Alone on a wide, wide sea:<br />
So lonely 'twas, that God himself<br />
Scarce seemed there to be.<br />
O sweeter than the marriage-feast,<br />
'Tis sweeter far to me,<br />
To walk together to the kirk<br />
With a goodly company!--<br />
To walk together to the kirk,<br />
And all together pray,<br />
While each to his great Father bends,<br />
Old men, and babes, and loving friends<br />
And youths and maidens gay!<br />
"Rime of the Ancient Mariner"<br />
by Samuel Taylor Coleridge<br />
<br />
<br />
Farewell, farewell! but this I tell<br />
To thee, thou Wedding-Guest!<br />
He prayeth well, who loveth well<br />
Both man and bird and beast.<br />
He prayeth best, who loveth best<br />
All things both great and small;<br />
For the dear God who loveth us,<br />
He made and loveth all."<br />
The Mariner, whose eye is bright,<br />
Whose beard with age is hoar,<br />
Is gone: and now the Wedding-Guest<br />
Turned from the bridegroom's door.<br />
He went like one that hath been stunned,<br />
And is of sense forlorn:<br />
A sadder and a wiser man,<br />
He rose the morrow morn Cast a hook in me -- Laura Ve…tag:seaknots.ning.com,2010-03-31:900123:Comment:1289532010-03-31T22:21:53.050ZTerrihttp://seaknots.ning.com/profile/Terri28
Cast a hook in me -- Laura Veirs ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Breathe life to the street from the mouth<br />
Those ruby red lips have much to give<br />
Pull life from the land with your capable hands<br />
Those life loving beautiful broken hands<br />
Oh, I'll stand with you and marvel<br />
At the cosmos pink and bright<br />
All the pages flipping backwards<br />
Til time is gone and wrong is right<br />
<br />
Rivers running up the hills and to the sky and…
Cast a hook in me -- Laura Veirs ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Breathe life to the street from the mouth<br />
Those ruby red lips have much to give<br />
Pull life from the land with your capable hands<br />
Those life loving beautiful broken hands<br />
Oh, I'll stand with you and marvel<br />
At the cosmos pink and bright<br />
All the pages flipping backwards<br />
Til time is gone and wrong is right<br />
<br />
Rivers running up the hills and to the sky and down to the sea<br />
Where a merman with a twinkle casts a hook in me<br />
<br />
Sing me a salty blue song, I'll be gone<br />
With watery cheeks down flowered lanes<br />
Tattered sails on a ramshakle ship, I'll go pale<br />
Staring straight in the face looming tempest waves<br />
Otherwise I'll wither and die here<br />
On this reach of rubble rambling<br />
With two years filled up with sand, dear<br />
In a broken daze I'll be scrambling<br />
<br />
Like rivers running up the hills and to the sky and down to the sea<br />
Where a merman with a twinkle casts a hook in me<br />
<br />
Summer sky falling into the sea, taking part of me<br />
See the bones on the sand in the light<br />
All the heards of the sea rushing by, pay no mind<br />
To the dancing reflections gone wild<br />
And at night a fractured star fell<br />
And pierced right through the thick of me<br />
I cried out in pain and joy, yes<br />
I'm not dead, not numb, not withering<br />
<br />
Like a falling leaf who keeps her green, I'm turning bright in the sea<br />
Where a merman with a twinkle casts a hook in me GOTHIC Fog on the moors.
In a…tag:seaknots.ning.com,2010-03-30:900123:Comment:1288802010-03-30T18:51:06.571ZTerrihttp://seaknots.ning.com/profile/Terri28
GOTHIC Fog on the moors.<br />
In a carriage on the bog<br />
You were riding through the gloom about you;<br />
You were heading for the sea<br />
To the lover sailing off without you.<br />
Fog on the moors.<br />
<br />
Mist on the shore.<br />
You were standing on the lee<br />
In the wind above the ocean churning;<br />
He was leaving on the tide<br />
Knowing he would never be returning.<br />
Mist on the shore.<br />
<br />
You would give him all the love<br />
Underneath the sky above.<br />
But he longs to feel the breeze<br />
On the wide and open seas.<br />
Let him sail - he is…
GOTHIC Fog on the moors.<br />
In a carriage on the bog<br />
You were riding through the gloom about you;<br />
You were heading for the sea<br />
To the lover sailing off without you.<br />
Fog on the moors.<br />
<br />
Mist on the shore.<br />
You were standing on the lee<br />
In the wind above the ocean churning;<br />
He was leaving on the tide<br />
Knowing he would never be returning.<br />
Mist on the shore.<br />
<br />
You would give him all the love<br />
Underneath the sky above.<br />
But he longs to feel the breeze<br />
On the wide and open seas.<br />
Let him sail - he is free.<br />
Damosel, let him be.<br />
<br />
Storm on the rise!...<br />
Nuage, Eclair, Orage, Tonnerre,<br />
Tristesse, Des Pleurs, Angoisse, Douleur<br />
Ste. Mere De Dieu, Sauvez Nous!<br />
<br />
I would give you all the love<br />
Underneath the sky above.<br />
Turn your bow from Camelot<br />
Lonely Lady of Shalott.<br />
He is gone - let him be.<br />
Carry on, come to me.<br />
<br />
Cruel is the sea.<br />
It is washing him ashore<br />
With the wreckage of the dead and dying.<br />
He is lying in the sand<br />
And he'll never ever hear you crying.<br />
Cruel is the sea.<br />
<br />
Cruel is the sea, cruel is the sea.<br />
Come back to me.<br />
O, Sauvez nous! --------------------------------- Florczak/Minogue [Not sure if this really qual…tag:seaknots.ning.com,2010-02-19:900123:Comment:1256862010-02-19T06:09:22.204ZMilthttp://seaknots.ning.com/profile/MiltFalconer
[Not sure if this really qualifies, but it is one of my favorite songs from one of my favorite albums to listen to when I'm out sailing. It just puts me in that 'Jamaican' kind of mood and helps my heart find its wings.]<br />
<br />
Satisfy My Soul - Bob Marley - Legend<br />
<br />
Oh, please dont you rock my boat<br />
cause I dont want my boat to be rockin<br />
Oh Please dont you rock my boat, no<br />
cause I dont want my boat to be rockin<br />
<br />
I'm tellin you that, oh, ooh-aah, I like it like it like this<br />
So keep it steady, like…
[Not sure if this really qualifies, but it is one of my favorite songs from one of my favorite albums to listen to when I'm out sailing. It just puts me in that 'Jamaican' kind of mood and helps my heart find its wings.]<br />
<br />
Satisfy My Soul - Bob Marley - Legend<br />
<br />
Oh, please dont you rock my boat<br />
cause I dont want my boat to be rockin<br />
Oh Please dont you rock my boat, no<br />
cause I dont want my boat to be rockin<br />
<br />
I'm tellin you that, oh, ooh-aah, I like it like it like this<br />
So keep it steady, like this<br />
And you should know, you should know by now, I like it<br />
I like it like this, I like it like this, ooh yeah<br />
You satisfy my soul, whoa-yo-yo-yo<br />
You satisfy my soul,<br />
for Every little action, there's a reaction<br />
Oh can't you see, what you've done, for me, oh yea<br />
I'm happy inside, all, all o the time<br />
<br />
bendin, bend a new morning,<br />
I feel like a sweepstake winner,<br />
When I meet you around the corner<br />
You make me feel like,<br />
A sweepstakes winner,<br />
Whoa child<br />
<br />
Can't you see? You must believe me<br />
Oh, darlin, darlin, Im callin, callin<br />
Can't you see? Why won't you believe me?<br />
Oh, darlin, darlin, I'm callin, callin<br />
<br />
When I meet you around the corner<br />
Oh I said baby, never let me be, a loner<br />
and then you hold me tight, You make me feel alright<br />
Yes when you hold me tight, You make me feel alright, woman<br />
<br />
Can you see? don't you believe me?<br />
Oh, darlin, darlin, I'm callin, callin<br />
Can't you see? Why won't you believe me?<br />
Oh, darlin, darlin, I'm callin, callin<br />
<br />
All in the same boat<br />
Rockin on the same route<br />
We gotta get together, join each other<br />
And can't you see what Ive got for you? yeah<br />
<br />
Satisfy my soul, satisfy my soul<br />
Satisfy my soul, satisfy my soul<br />
That's all I want you to do,<br />
That's all I beg from you,<br />
Come a little closer, satisfy my ...<br />
Satisfy my soul, satisfy my soul.... A Sailor's Curse
Her love wa…tag:seaknots.ning.com,2010-02-18:900123:Comment:1256232010-02-18T15:29:35.510ZTerrihttp://seaknots.ning.com/profile/Terri28
A Sailor's Curse<br />
<br />
Her love was like a sailors passion<br />
Towards the raging sea<br />
And he was like her ocean<br />
Wild, simply free<br />
<br />
but the trouble with the ocean is<br />
It waits for no one man<br />
No one can tame it's rebel waves<br />
Some have tried but no one can<br />
<br />
She loved him for his spirit<br />
And his heart as tough as nails<br />
But to love him was a struggle<br />
And put strain upon her sails<br />
<br />
The waves can rise up tall<br />
And crush the biggest ships<br />
But it was worth the fear and danger<br />
To kiss upon his lips<br />
<br />
She knew a…
A Sailor's Curse<br />
<br />
Her love was like a sailors passion<br />
Towards the raging sea<br />
And he was like her ocean<br />
Wild, simply free<br />
<br />
but the trouble with the ocean is<br />
It waits for no one man<br />
No one can tame it's rebel waves<br />
Some have tried but no one can<br />
<br />
She loved him for his spirit<br />
And his heart as tough as nails<br />
But to love him was a struggle<br />
And put strain upon her sails<br />
<br />
The waves can rise up tall<br />
And crush the biggest ships<br />
But it was worth the fear and danger<br />
To kiss upon his lips<br />
<br />
She knew a broken heart<br />
Were the wages to be paid<br />
But she loved him nonetheless<br />
Her love was never swayed<br />
<br />
It's truly a sailors curse<br />
To love a thing so free<br />
And though you want to keep it<br />
Many ships will sail the sea<br />
<br />
She admired his dense coarse nature<br />
She adored his wild heart<br />
And she knew his heart that she loved<br />
Before long would break hers apart<br />
<br />
And it did, it hurt her so deeply<br />
That she had to let him go<br />
It was freedom he wanted so greatly<br />
And commitment he couldn't show<br />
<br />
It's not the oceans fault, you see<br />
That it's waves are so untamed<br />
It is within it's nature<br />
So it cannot be blamed<br />
<br />
Someday one man among many<br />
Will hang his cap upon her door<br />
In the meantime there will be plenty of<br />
sandy footprints swept from the cabin floor<br />
<br />
C.Crawford I forget where I ever found t…tag:seaknots.ning.com,2010-02-18:900123:Comment:1256222010-02-18T15:06:35.862Z___/)ances With Sailshttp://seaknots.ning.com/profile/danceswithsails
I forget where I ever found this:<br />
<br />
<br />
I be the IZOD pirate, with an eye-patch, white and<br />
green,<br />
Me duffle bag's from Land's End, and me duffs from<br />
L.L. Bean.<br />
Me steward brings me caviar, and me porter totes me<br />
gear,<br />
Got a beeper in me scabbard, got a cell-phone in me<br />
ear.<br />
<br />
<br />
REFRAIN: Singin' "lah-dee-dah",<br />
Sailin' near and fah,<br />
And I never breaks a sweat,<br />
With a ferret, not a parrot,<br />
On me shoulder for a pet!<br />
<br />
I rides me trusty Jetski, as I trades commodities,<br />
Barkin' orders to me broker,…
I forget where I ever found this:<br />
<br />
<br />
I be the IZOD pirate, with an eye-patch, white and<br />
green,<br />
Me duffle bag's from Land's End, and me duffs from<br />
L.L. Bean.<br />
Me steward brings me caviar, and me porter totes me<br />
gear,<br />
Got a beeper in me scabbard, got a cell-phone in me<br />
ear.<br />
<br />
<br />
REFRAIN: Singin' "lah-dee-dah",<br />
Sailin' near and fah,<br />
And I never breaks a sweat,<br />
With a ferret, not a parrot,<br />
On me shoulder for a pet!<br />
<br />
I rides me trusty Jetski, as I trades commodities,<br />
Barkin' orders to me broker, corporate-raidin'<br />
globally!<br />
Buyin' long and selling shorter, lots of booty in the<br />
bank,<br />
And if any dares to cross me, they'll walk me<br />
hand-carved plank!<br />
<br />
REFRAIN<br />
<br />
And when I goes to battle, me suit's by Brothers<br />
Brooks,<br />
Me lackey valet dresses me, like 'Smee did Captain<br />
Hook,<br />
Me spy-glass is a satellite, and me chopper shuttles<br />
me<br />
From me Cris-Craft cabin-cruiser, anywhere I please.<br />
<br />
REFRAIN<br />
<br />
By Audi, Saab, or Volvo, I travels to the docks,<br />
Or me S.U.V. transports me to me safe deposit box.<br />
When we ties-up at the yacht club, we dines on surf n'<br />
turf;<br />
No Jolly Roger on me flag, just a cute and cuddly<br />
Smurf!