[Sca-cooks] OT Buccaneering

[Decker, Terry D.]

I can not lay claim to the lyrics which were penned by Young Ewing Allison
in 1891 under the title, "Derelict."  He in turn lifted the chorus from
Stevenson's "Treasure Island" (1881).  I also certainly made some errors and
the quote was incomplete.  I've been trying to remember the whole thing all
day.

To bring this closer to topic, the cooking related stanzas are:

The mate was fixed by the bos'n's pike
And the bos'n brained with a marlin spike
And Cookey's throat was marked belike,
It had been gripped by fingers ten.
And there they lay all good dead men
Like break of day in a boozing ken
Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum.

The Skipper lay with his knob in gore
Where the scullion's ax his cheek had shore
And the scullion he was stabbed times four
And there he lay and the soggy skies
Dripped all day in up-staring eyes
At murk sunset and at foul sunrise.
Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum.

A pirate's life appears to have gone hard on those of the culinary art,
although Long John Silver appeared to come out reasonable well.

And you should be thankful I didn't pull out "Fourteen Folks in the Fat Guy
Pool."

Bear

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> Maire writes in response to Bear:
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> > Oh, thank you *so* much....<g>
> > --maire
>
> Well, Bear's lyrics are a big improvement on "Yo ho, yo ho a pervert's
> life for me..."
>
> 'Lain-- uh, Adamant-- no, Hue--
>