Ranzo Ray! (the version listed as "Ranzo Ray 2" in the Digital Tradition, and there is a sound file)

It's a simple sea chanty that starts (the way my band Dogwatch used to sing it, though not on the DT), "We're bound away for China on board of a Limey liner." Then there are lots of verses about various ports and what you're taking there. Examples from the lyrics Dogwatch sang: "We're bound for Buenos Aires with a load of green canaries"; "We're bound away for Frisco with a load of Chile pisco."

But I've always wanted to do this song as an ad lib, getting ports from the audience and making up the cargoes to rhyme, and now you can do it for me! Make up some verses about ports in China, fill your hold with cargoes that appeal to small people, and there you are.

"We're bound away for Shanghai with a load of year-old porkpie"

"We're bound away for Tsingtao with a hold that's full of cat chow"

"We're bound away for Kowloon with a load of rusty teaspoons". . .

Claire