Lyr Req: Chantey Claus

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Chantey Claus
From: Wincing Devil
Date: 27 Dec 01 - 01:13 PM

The reason I didn't cut&paste is because the guy's tryin' to make a buck from selling his book. Give his site a look

AARRGGHH!!

Wincing Devil   >;-( A hat is a LOT cheaper than a toupee, and nobody wonders if it's a hat!

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Chantey Claus
From: Charley Noble
Date: 27 Dec 01 - 09:33 AM

Copy and paste! Thank you!

Subject: Lyr Add: A VISIT FROM WHITEBEARD (C. Cable)
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 26 Dec 01 - 02:42 PM

Here it is, from the website mentioned above.

A VISIT FROM WHITEBEARD
(Cap'n Clark Cable)

'Twas the night afore Christmas, and down below decks
All the prisoners was sleepin'—with chains 'round their necks.
A mutineer was hung from the yardarm with care
So's all o' the others was sure to beware.
The crew was all nestled below in their bunks:
They slept just like babies—but smelled just like skunks.

The mate with his cutlass, and me with me gun
Had just settled in for a long drink o' rum,
When over the decks there arose such a clamor,
I reached for me pistol, and pulled back the hammer.
Away to the porthole I flew in a wink—
I opened it wide, and I threw up me drink.

The moon to the west was the probable source
Of the naggin' suspicion that we was off course,
When what to me matey's one eye should appear
But eight flyin' goats and an old buccaneer!
I went for me spyglass when first they appeared
And I knew in a minute it must be—WHITEBEARD!

More rapid than seagulls they flew toward me quarters—
And he lashed them, and cursed them, and barked out these orders:
"Now, Long Jack! Now, Silver! Now, Dutchman and Flint!
On Barnacle, and Bluster! On Cable, and Quint!
To the top o' the mains'l, to the top o' the mast!
Now cast off that line! No, not that one! OH, BLAST!"

As ships that are pitchin' and driven by blizzard
When met with an obstacle, ram through its gizzard,
So into the crow's nest his vessel did crash
With a blasphemous curse, and the crack of a lash.
And then, in a twinkling, I heard him aloft
As he climbed down the rigging all stealthy and soft.

As I pulled in me head and went back in the gloom
Down onto the deck Whitebeard hit with a BOOM!
He was blackened with powder burns, head down to boot,
And we hid 'neath me bunk as he searched for the loot.
A rusty old cutlass that hung by his side
Made me feel very glad we'd decided to hide.

His eye, how it festered! His features, how salty!
He tripped and he fell, 'cause his vision was faulty.
His ratty white hair was tied back with a scarf,
And the beard on his chin was so white you could barf.
The stump of his knee was held up by a peg—
And how well I remember—'twas I took his leg!

He had a long, jagged scar, and a stomach gigantic
That rolled when he walked like the northern Atlantic.
He was ugly and fat—a right scurvy old elf
So I stayed where I was and threw up on myself.
For the look in his eye and the tilt of his head
Soon gave me to know that we soon might be dead.

He spoke not a word, but went straight to the hold
And he stole all the silver, and bagged up the gold,
And locking the treasure up inside a chest
Went back up the rigging into the crow's nest.
He boarded his craft, to his team gave a yell,
And away they all flew just like bats out of Hell!

But I heard him proclaim, like a ghost from afar,
"I'll be back again next year—be ready! Har, harrr!"

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Chantey Claus
From: MMario
Date: 06 Dec 01 - 09:13 AM

yes keltik - it is polite - and you can do it on the "What's on! Who is performing where" thread - third from the top on the main forum page.

click here for What's on! thread

Or start a new thread if you would like.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Chantey Claus
From: GUEST,Keltik
Date: 06 Dec 01 - 08:24 AM

sneaking in a ettiquite question at the bottom of the thread... its it appropo to annouce performances? (we're [iwg local 42] doing a breast cancer benefit w/ ships company in feb)
-keltik the polite

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Chantey Claus
From: GUEST,Keltik
Date: 06 Dec 01 - 08:15 AM

Wincing Devil wrote:

"And I was the one who sang
"God Save the King" in memory of Bill Huttel. ;-) "

LOL!
I DO know you... *G* world getting tinier by the minute!

thanks for the link, PRP!

Subject: A Visit From Whitebeard!
From: Wincing Devil
Date: 06 Dec 01 - 12:37 AM

THATS IT!
A Visit From Whitebeard is exactly what I was looking for! I was doing a search on "shanty claus", which is no where near it. I won't post the words here, because I respect that he's tryin to make a buck, so go to his site!

Thanx, Catters!

Wincing Devil   >;-( God said "Let there be cats!", and was promptly ignored

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Chantey Claus
From: GUEST,same idiot - PRP
Date: 05 Dec 01 - 08:38 PM

Ha! I found it. I got so excited that I pushed enter by mistake.

It is called "A visit from Whitebeard" and you can find the words at www.angelfire.com/biz/argonnehotel/cbook386.html and the guys name is Cap'n Clark Cable. I used Excite as a search engine and looked for "the rusty old cutlass" (of course, I also got a web site with story about someone's beat up car)

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Chantey Claus
From: GUEST,Member - Port Royal Privateers
Date: 05 Dec 01 - 08:33 PM

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Chantey Claus
From: GUEST,Member - Port Royal Privateers
Date: 05 Dec 01 - 08:26 PM

Would love to have these words! Anyone!

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Chantey Claus
From: Wincing Devil
Date: 05 Dec 01 - 07:01 PM

And I was the one who sang "God Save the King" in memory of Bill Huttel. ;-)

Wincing Devil   >;-( A cat makes winter bearable!

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Chantey Claus
From: GUEST,Keltik
Date: 05 Dec 01 - 05:16 PM

yep..

the tom lewis one *G* "oh lord above, send down a dove..."

-keltik

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Chantey Claus
From: MMario
Date: 05 Dec 01 - 05:05 PM

WHICH

Sailor's prayer, Keltik?

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Chantey Claus
From: GUEST
Date: 05 Dec 01 - 05:04 PM

wincing devil. *G* if you were there last nite... i was the woman in blue who sang "sailors prayer" *G*

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Chantey Claus
From: GUEST,Keltik
Date: 05 Dec 01 - 05:01 PM

I'm resonably certain that this guy:

http://www.noquartergiven.net/images/captcable.jpg

wrote it... i just dont have his contact info to hand....

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Chantey Claus
From: MMario
Date: 05 Dec 01 - 05:01 PM

we can do better! (if Skiv checks his PM's here....)

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Chantey Claus
From: GUEST,Keltik
Date: 05 Dec 01 - 04:59 PM

and getting tinier all the time!

a polite email to mike b. at the shipscompany.org website or to Craig W. at pyrates.com may yeild the complete poem...

"The rusty old cutlass that hung at his side, soon gave me to know that we'd been wise to hide!"

-Keltik renfair addict, shanty groupie

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Chantey Claus
From: Wincing Devil
Date: 05 Dec 01 - 04:57 PM

Aye, Lassie, That's where I heard it too. I heard it last year by Mr. Skivee hisself, but hisself is wending his way up from Floriday, and couldn't deliver it in person. Mike told me it looked like a much forwarded email (Lotsa lines starting with "> > >") I've looked with Google, AltaVista and Yahoo (which just re-hashed Google) and can't find it.

Wincing Devil   >;-( Cats don't have owners, they have staff...

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Chantey Claus
From: MMario
Date: 05 Dec 01 - 04:47 PM

Small world, ain't it?

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Chantey Claus
From: GUEST,Keltik
Date: 05 Dec 01 - 04:35 PM

lurkers will out.... Hi MMario!

argghhh....i just heard this performed at the Royal Mile in wheaton last nite read by Mike B. from Ship"s Company.

AFAIK, it was written by a fella who performs (at among other thing,s kids bday parties) as a Pirate called "Cap'n Cable" i have his biz card somewhere.... just not to hand. *G*

-Keltik

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Chantey Claus
From: MMario
Date: 05 Dec 01 - 12:29 PM

it it holds true to the poem's meter - then it can be sung to 'Irish Washerwoman'

Subject: Chantey Claus
From: Wincing Devil
Date: 05 Dec 01 - 09:50 AM

I'm not sure if it's a song, I've only heard it read. It's based on Clement Moore's "The Night before Christmas" and it's called "A Visit from Chantey Claus" It's funny as hell, about a visit from the pirate known as "White Beard" , stealing stuff instead of leaving stuff etc.

Wincing Devil   >;-( A hat is a LOT cheaper than a toupee, and nobody wonders if it's a hat!