The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #99529 Message #1989823
Posted By: HuwG
07-Mar-07 - 03:52 PM
Thread Name: BS: Seasickness - avoidance of
Subject: RE: BS: Seasickness - avoidance of
From C.B. Hilliam and Malcolm McEachern (also known as "Flotsam and Jetsam"):
Rocked in the cradle of the deep
My soul lays down to sleep
Secure from sickness, says the song
But the poet, I'll prove, is wrong !
First day at sea, all as happy as can be
Second day out, there's a change without a doubt
Third day aboard, all are below with one accord
Fourth day afloat, what's the matter with this boat ?
Fifth day, sixth day, then the Bay of Biscay !
Here I'll recommend this rhyme
That indicates that now's the time
Rocked in the cradle of the deep
My soul lays down to sleep
From deep in my bunk
Into which I've sunk
I do declare
that to this well-known air
Words new for old
Should be enscrolled
Words that in truth
proclaim the awful sooth
That rocked in the cradle of the de--
--pends entirely on the weather I'll lay
Forty to one against sleep !
Secure, secure my sickened soul !
{Steward !!!!)
Rocked in the cradle of the deep
Depression now centred over Iceland
Rocked in the cradle of the deep.