OK, Art - Max's nifty new search engine brought your cabbage comparison right up. It's in this thread (click), complete with a graphic description of the naked lady in the office of the police chief, probably right across the street from the sausage factory.
but that's another matter....
I notice that in the "Lady Elgin" verses you posted, you put them in the order that seems to make more sense to me, with the ship leaving the shore first, and then the last verse the one with the weeping children. The database and the sheet music at Levy have that order reversed. Got any official reason for the way you order the verses, or is it just that you and I share the same twisted Midwestern logic?
-Joe Offer-