BUCKETMOUTH MCGINTY
(Eugene Gunter)

Bucketmouth McGinty was quite a drinking man,
And captain of the schooner they called the Peter Pan.
Whenever he got loaded, the crew would hear him call:
"Save the kids and women first, then save the alcohol."

Each time they left the harbor, he would call the crew aside
And give each man his orders. His chest would swell with pride.
And then as he'd dismiss them, he'd tell them one and all:
"Save the kids and women first, then save the alcohol."

One day the ship was rolling upon the stormy sea.
The waves were getting higher the wind was making free.
McGinty told his crewmen, "We're in for quite a squall.--
Save the kids and women first, then save the alcohol."

"I'm going to my cabin and pour myself a drink.
I don't care an awful lot if this old tub should sink,
But if this thing should happen," he added with his drawl--
"Save the kids and women first, then save the alcohol."

They rushed into his cabin in time to see him go,
And as they gathered round him, he spoke in words so low:
"Just bury me at sea, boys. I hear the angels call--
Save the kids and women first, then save the alcohol."

Oh, whiskey got old Mac at last. it finally caused his death.
Forty years before the mast without a sober breath.
He tripped upon a bottle and perished from the fall.
They couldn't save McGinty but they saved the alcohol.

McGinty's in the ocean with lots of sea above.
The mermaids follow him, their hearts full of love.
No matter how they smile at him, he can't hear them at all.
He just keeps yelling, "Ring me out and save the alcohol."


How this got up to the University of Conn. by 1952-53 is beyond me.
Allan