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Thread #68218   Message #1146966
Posted By: JWB
26-Mar-04 - 03:49 PM
Thread Name: ADD: The Night Charlie Tended Weir (Ruth Moore)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Night that Charlie tended Wier ?
There are a couple of lines missing from Kendall's transcription. Here they are, in CAPS:

Times he gets to feeling it's no damn use,
So, Charlie had a pitcherful in his orange juice.
The, he felt better than he had before, so, he had another
pitcherful to get him to the shore.

NOW,DOWN BY THE BEACH ROCKS, UNDERNEATH A TREE,
CHARLIE SAW SOMETHING THAT HE NEVER THOUGHT HE'D SEE:
Sparkling in the lanturn light as he went to pass
Were thre big diamonds in the frosty grass.

........

Black in the lanturn light, up he rose
A great big barnacle on the end of his nose.
LOOKS CHARLIE OVER, SURLY AND CROSS, SAYS,
"Them fish you got shut up in there belongs to my boss."

"Fish"? says Charlie, "Fish in there? why, I aint caught a fish
since I built that damned weir."

...........................

He came at Charlie with a gurgly roar,
And Charlie let him have it with the portside oar.
Right on the noggin, a hell of a knock,
AND THAT OLD SEA SERPENT, HE SANK LIKE A ROCK.

"So, go on back" says Charlie,
And tell the old jerk not to send a boy to do a man's work"


I've toyed with the idea of putting a tune to this, but it's too much fun to recite.

Jerry