The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #5554   Message #44047
Posted By: MMario
03-Nov-98 - 04:28 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Whale of a Tale
Subject: Lyr Add: WHALE OF A TALE (Gimbel, Hoffman)
lyrics:

Got a whale of tale to tell ya lads
a whale of a tale or two...
Bout the flappin’ fish and the girls I’ve loved,
on nights like this with the moon above...
A whale of a tale and it’s all true,
I swear by my tattoo...

There was Mermaid Minnie...
met her down in Madagascar
She would kiss me...
any time that I would ask her
Then one evenin’
her flame of love blew out
BLOW me down and PICK me up!
She swapped me for a trout!!

CHORUS

There was Typhoon Tessie
met her on the coast of Java...
When we kissed, I
bubbled up like molten lava
Then she gave me
the scare of my young life

BLOW me down and PICK me up!
She was the Captain’s wife!

CHORUS

Then there was Harpoon Hanna
had a look that spelled out danger
My heart quivered
when she said "Howdy stranger"
Bought her trinkets...
That sailors can’t afford...
And when I’d spent my last red cent
she tossed me overboard!

CHORUS



As a representative of sea songs, I would suspect this is less then nothing. As a song that makes people THINK they are hearing a sea song, though....