Another of my pet theories has just gone down davy jones locker with this thread . I had been thinking that you would have had a better chance of getting a song written about you if your name happened to rhyme well rather than on account of any heroic deeds you might have performed 'gainst France or Spain. And yet Cochrane hits with all the right nautical rhymes : briny main ,lashing rain , timbers rent in twain , seamen plain etc etc.