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Thread #61283   Message #985425
Posted By: GUEST,Jerry
17-Jul-03 - 03:59 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: blow the man down
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: blow the man bown
One of Kendall's verses is similar to a version of BTMD I know. It begins with the usual meeting of the couple, and progresses to her room on the third floor.

It was up in her cabin she piped me aboard,
And there on the bed I cut loose with my sword.

It was just as my cutter was forging ahead,
She cried out, "My husband!" and jumped out of bed.

He was seven foot tall with a chest like a horse,
And straight for my jawbone he plotted his course.

He rattled my rigging and loosened my stays,
I flew down the stairs like a ship on the ways.

The version ends, properly, with an admonition to avoid pretty girls at dockside.

Jerry