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Thread #883   Message #518480
Posted By: GUEST,Frogmore
31-Jul-01 - 02:12 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Sailor's Hornpipe
Subject: RE: lyrics to Sailors Hornpipe
On a Savannah Ga. TV station in the 50s there was a weather man named "Capt. Sandy." His theme song was to the tune of the first part of Sailor's Hornpipe. It went, "Yo Ho Ho, what's the weather gonna be? Here's the man who knows, just take a look and see. Here is Capt. Sandy with the weather he has found - for Savannah and for Chatham and the counties all around." A clam on the ocean floor would open his mouth and announce the tide schedule and a pelican would be lowered by a wire and tell the wind direction and velocity. I've been known to surprise my fellow pickers with a rendition of this at the end of the tune.