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Thread #122619 Message #2691642
Posted By: Q (Frank Staplin)
01-Aug-09 - 12:10 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Reach for the Gin (Mike Sparks)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Reach for the Gin
The song is not a chantey, but the song of a yacht club wannabe sailor, written by Mike Sparks, 1999.
Last verse:
I'll go no more a-sailing, of that you can be sure
I'll just stay here safely tied up by the clubhouse door
Waving at the others sailing out and sailing in
Sitting on my quarter-deck a-drinking of the gin.