with apologies to the ORIGINAL Stern Old Bachelor

"I am a stern old bachelor
My age is forty-four
I do declare, I'll never sing
With women anymore.
I have a dirge ten verses long,
A ballad that's fifteen-
But both are quite misogynist
And neither one is clean.

CHO:
Oh, little loud chantey, little loud chantey dear to me..
I am stern old bachelor, who's better off at sea.

(feel free to mess with this...or leave it lie..the muse works strangely sometimes...*grin*)