Pablo the pirate
is home from the sea,
his left leg has a wooden stump
just below the knee,
ask him how he lost it
and he will tell to you,
a crocodile bit it off,
in the land of Umpaloo,
he would have had the other
but for him he was too clever,
he tied it up behind his back
making it difficult to see,
so that big green, nasty, greedy croc,
only got one leg for his tea.
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love it. I shan’t ask how the bleep he could stand with one leg in the croc’s mouth and t’other tied up behind him. Unless he was Jake the Peg.
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He was swimming, and playing the accordion with a gallon of rum tied on the top of his head, isn’t it obvious?
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Shucks, why didn’t I think of that. My head must be some place else today!
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Love this, Bobby. Please take it that you’ve had two likes here, as my 15-year-old daughter is mad on pirates, tall ships and the sea, and she loved it too. She wants to be a maritime historian and listens to sea shanties instead of pop music. So thanks for this great little shanty. 🙂
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In my eyes she can do no wrong, a fascinating path to follow, to be encouraged, Johnny Depp would be right behind her.
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Thanks, Mike – I’ll tell her you said that. She’ll be so pleased. Funnily enough, the Pirates of the Caribbean series are her favourite films! 🙂
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I have to confess she is in good company, a ship’s company that is, Mike??
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Sorry Bobby – it was last when I answered you, and I’d just discovered this, (daughter and ship theme)
https://smallcaradventures.com/2019/07/19/on-this-day-1545-a-tragedy-at-sea/comment-page-1/#comment-768
so I was a bit distracted. Goodness knows where Mike came from – it’s not even a pirate name! Forgive me, I was being an idiot.
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Curiously I have a connection with this too, I was on one of Her Majesty’s Ships acting as guardboat for the raising of the Mary Rose on that special day she saw the light of day after all those years
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Gosh ys, I remember you saying. How amazing that we’re talking about this now. Maddie would have loved to have been there. 😊
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