TALE OF A SAILOR
(By
R. B.
G.
We're a barque-rigged ship And we’ve come from afar, From the lands of spice Where the natives are So terribly, very Pe — cu — li — arl We're loaded deep To the Plimsoll mark With guano phosphate Which it wern’t no lark To shovel aboard This blinkin’ barque., So it’s heigh and away And we've hoisted the sails And traversed the seas Where spout the whales Which flourish such queer Extravagant tails! After every commotior In each sort of ocean We all had a notion To enter this harbour To augment our larder And sell you guaner! Alas to out sorrow And also our horror You seized on the morrow Our gallant Parnir. After war peace will follow Then in joy we will wallow And spread our white wings To the winds once again,
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 5, Issue 115, 5 September 1941, Page 47
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140TALE OF A SAILOR New Zealand Listener, Volume 5, Issue 115, 5 September 1941, Page 47
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