The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #18465   Message #184576
Posted By: Boarding Party (KC)
25-Feb-00 - 04:15 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Sam's Gone Away (chantey)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Sam Gone Away - Shanty
Sam's Gone Away does a lot of heavy hauling in many other respects. It's a great one to do with kids. All they have to do is come up with one word to keep it going!

Some of the Boarding Party's non-tradition "words" included:

I wish I was awake ... I wish I was the figure head ... I wish I was a maid ... I wish I was a board ...

Punsters can surely do better.

For the anal retentive, its fun to keep the progression up the naval pecking order correct while achieving good (or creative) "scan".

KC