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17 Mar 06 - 07:45 PM (#1696547) Subject: Lyr Add: Good Old Brig From: Barry Finn Good Ol Brig (from George Herbert of West Geelong, Australia (RIP. Collected by Barry Finn, 1979) Good Old Brig From London to Denmark we shipped aboard a brig Her timbers all were holy & pulp it was her rig Ch: So let the breezes blow, she's old & slow We'll float across to Germany & shirk & lay below Our foresail was all torn, we hadn't any thread We grabbed the skipper's pants & hoisted them instead We hadn't got a compass, we knew our way by smell And if we went off course, the skipper would ring the bell We hadn't got a lantern, to see us through the dark The skipper's nose was bright enough to scare off any shark The wheelhouse it was rotten, it made the rats amused The only thing we had to spin was granny's spinning wheel We should've sighted Hamburg a week ago it seems When the lookout shouted strike me pink he sighted Barbary So we got ourselves a tugboat & towed that brig astern And if we ever reach Hamburg some day we will return |
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18 Mar 06 - 09:58 AM (#1696899) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Good Old Brig From: Charley Noble Another nice one! Cheerily, Charley Noble |