Horrible Things What Live in the Sea

The first RPM challenge song written for my creepy puppet, Sailor Martin. The title is self-explanatory. The electric guitar he is singing along to is actually a ukulele.

LYRICS:

There are things what every sailor knows
Truths upon which we all agree
Put a silver coin beneath the mast
Or this voyage will be the last
And there are horrible things what live in the sea

There's the viperfish with his needle teeth
He stares at you as he glides beneath
It's a long and a lean fish
And a smart and a mean fish
And one bit the leg off Boatswain Keith

What a monstrous thing is the pelican eel
With a mouth big enough to gulp down a seal
Many a man at sea, fallen overboard
Finds a gaping mouth is his reward
And what once a sailor is now a meal

A mighty schooner, sailing south
Might be a victim of the megamouth
He will start at the aft and move to the fore
Chewing, chewing, and chewing more
And he'll swallow as much as his maw allows

There's the ogrefish with his vicious bite
And the coffinfish who swells when he fights
The blue-ringed octopus with his deadly sting
And the blobfish is a horrible thing
And the Chimaera with his poisoned spine
And the collosal squid that stalks the brine
And makes snacks of the great white whale
There are real monsters waiting for those what sail

There are things what every sailor knows
Truths upon which we all agree
Don't look back when you say goodbye
And St. Elmo's fire means you're going to die
And there are horrible things what live in the sea

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posted by Astro Zombie (3 comments total)

Ah ha ha this rules. That ukelele sounds great and Sailor Martin is, as always, a dreadful beast.
posted by Karlos the Jackal at 11:56 PM on February 10, 2009

\m/
posted by ageispolis at 2:50 PM on February 11, 2009

Here's a shot of Sailor Jerry's to Sailor Martin.

*smacks lips* That was gooooood!
posted by snsranch at 5:45 PM on February 11, 2009