G'day MMario (and Charley),

Hmmm ...! Once you get to the ending (and take note of Joe's remark that "I guess the wreck was in a fairly-protected part of Boston Harbor") it starts to remind me of the line of 'spoof' sea-disaster songs ... ones like The Irish Rover or, more inland The Erie Canal.

In Australia we have a few of these and the one that this brings to mind is A Nautical Yarn ... about a Murray River paddlewheeler that runs aground in a storm ... on a sandbank ... and they all walk ashore! The same sort of sudden salvation, with little explanation. I guess that I need to decode the MIDI and hear what the tune sounds like. If it seems to be in the comic genre, then the sudden re-appearance of Willie is just part of the style.

(I can't see A Nautical Yarn in the DT ... I'll do a bit more of a check for threads with an unharvested version ... and maybe post it, if needed.)

Regards,

Bob Bolton