I have created a maritime parody of the Frozen Logger for your delectation: THE STEADFAST SAILOR Lyrics: Eric Russell August 10, 2003 Melody: The Frozen Logger 1) As I sat down one evening Inside a small cafẻ, A forty year old waitress To me these words did say: 2)"I see you are a sailor And not just a common bum; "Cause nobody but a sailor Adds coffee to his rum. 3) "My lover was a sailor, There's none like him today— If you'd pour rum upon it He'd eat the main backstay. 4) He never shaved the whiskers From off of his horny hide— He'd comb them out with gill rakers And display them with pride. 5) "He never trimmed the nails From the ends of his calloused thumbs— He used them both for marling spikes, Also to stir his rum. 6) "My lover came to see me On a cold and stormy day; He greeted me with a fond embrace That broke three vertebrae. 7) "He kissed me as he left me So hard it cracked my chin; I could not speak to tell him He'd left behind his oilskins. 8) "I saw my lover leaving, Going bravely out to sea; He sailed out before the wind And gave no thought to me. 9) "The North wind tried to wreck him; The seas ran tow'ring foam; And when his topsails did blow out, He never ran for home. 10) It pick'd him off the poopdeck It carried him o'er the boom; And as the wind kept rising, It blew him past the moon. 11) "And so I lost my lover-- To this cafẻ I come And here I wait for someone Who drinks his coffee in his rum." I hope you enjoy it.
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