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| | | Artist: | Unknown |
| | Album: | Unknown | | Track: | Chivalrous Shark | | | | Date Added: | 18/10/2007 | | Views: | 141 | | | | Lyrics: | Chivalrous Shark
The most chivalrous fish of the ocean,
To ladies forbearing and
mild,
Though his record be dark
Is the man-eating shark
Who will eat neither woman
nor child.
He dines upon seamen and skippers,
And tourists his hunger
assuage,
And a fresh cabin boy
Will inspire him with joy
If he's past the maturity
age.
A doctor, a lawyer, a preacher,
He'll gobble one any fine day,
But the
ladies, God bless 'em.
He'll only address 'em
Politely and go on his way.
l can
readily cite you an instance
Where a lovely young lady of Breem,
Who was tender and
sweet
And delicious to eat,
Fell into the bay with a scream.
She struggled and
flounced in the water
And signaled in vain for her bark,
And she'd surely been
drowned
If she hadn't been found
By a chivalrous man-eating shark.
He bowed in
a manner most polished.
Thus soothing her impulses wild:
"Don't be frightened," he
said,
I've been properly bred
And I eat neither woman nor child."
Then he
proffered his fin and she took it-
Such a gallantry none can dispute-
While the passengers
cheered
As the vessel they neared
And a broadside was fired in salute.
And they
soon stood alongside the vessel,
When a life-saving dinghy was lowered
With the pick of
the crew,
And her relatives too,
And the mate and the skipper aboard.
So they
took her aboard in a jiffy
And the shark stood at attention the while,
Then he raised on
his flipper
And ate up the skipper
And went on his way with a smile.
And this
shows that the prince of the ocean,
To ladies forbearing and mild,
Though his record be
dark,
Is the man-eating shark
Who will eat neither woman nor
child
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Reprinted in Song Fest by Dick and Beth Best
from Nautical Lays
of a Landsman by Wallace Irwin
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Copyright 1904 Wallace Irwin
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