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SWIMSAM (Bert Lee & R.P.Weston) Sammy was a sailor, a sailor big and broad Shipped on board a whaler and tumbled overboard Shouted : "Someone save me!" Someone said : "Go Hang! - The sharks are sniffing round you!" Then his shipmates sang: cho: Swim Sam, Swim Sam, Swim Sam Show them you're some swimmer Swim like a snow-white swan, Sam You know how the snow-white swan swam, Six sharp shivering sharks Are gonna snap your limb But a swim well-swum is a well-swum swim So Swim Sam, Swim Sam, Swim! Sammy swum with vigour, the race had just begun Sharks all eyed his figure,"All jelly!" shouted one Some old portly porpoise, bobbed up in the foam And shouted : "If you want to catch the last boat home:" Sharks all sang the chorus and said while in the brine "Ragtime ditties bore us, but By Gum! this is fine!" They spluttered with their "S's", until they got lock-jawed And Sammy left them singing as he climbed on board : I have it on a 1981 REGAL SLIP record "Bandstand" - from the UK - being Graham a nd Eileen Pratt (now back in circulation, I believe), Sue Edwards, and Ron Taylo r. I think Swim Sam,Swim may be an old music hall song; they credit it to Bert L ee and R.P.Weston. This was a great favourite in the Darwin, (Australia) folksce ne, sung by the likes of Tony Suttor and Paul Lawler!! RJ Did you know that Regal Slip is Pils Lager backwards! @animal @musichall @humor @sailor filename[ SWIMSAM RJ |
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