Mark wrote

There's a link at the top of this page to "Pleasant and Delightful, Seattle," and the song in the DT needs some emendations.

First, I believe it was written by the late John Dwyer. Perhaps his daughter Maggie (Stilly River Sage) could enlighten us on that.

Then there are some garbled lines. "Bumpershoot" should be "bumbershoot," and "galoshes" has an "a" in it. Lines 5 and 6 in the second verse ("It's a crowded berth...") are very wrong, but I don't remember the right words. Woodland Park may be in there--no redwoods in Seattle!

And the third verse should be:

You sit down on a park bench
To admire the view
From Magnolia down to Alki Point
And the ferryboats too
They ply their trade so merrily
'Cross the Sound and back again
That you're moved to kiss her moistly
Through the omnipresent rain

I was looking for this because it was sung last night at the Stewart Hendrickson's Seattle Folklore Society CD celebration concert. Like Mark I was struck by the obvious incorrectness of some of the lyrics. While I can't say for sure what the correct lines 2:5-6 should be, I can throw a little light on the "berth ... redwoods park" bit: the reference is to "Myrtle Edwards Park", located a rainily walkable distance north of Ivar's Acres of Clams. Incidentally, there are redwoods in Seattle. We had one in our yard when I was a kid, the previous owners had grown it from a burl (which they brought from California) and it was taller than our two-story house. It's gone now. But there are still quite a few California Redwoods in the ravine at Ravenna Park.

Haruo