Every Good Ship Has A Main Mast.mp3
Every good ship has a mainmast, an upstanding stick.
Every young girl likes a young man with an upstanding
Hoist away the main t'gallants'l
While the good ship lies steadily,
Every young girl likes another man
When her young man's at sea!
Every good ship has a longboat, a longboat has rollicks.
Every young girl likes a young man with a HUGE pair of
Every good ship has a bowsprit, and the bowsprit's out in front.
Every young girl likes a young man who tickles her
Every good ship has a tops'l, and the tops'l's up aloft.
Every young girl HATES a young man who [?thumps it in]
"Now that is obviously a very old song. One time, John, coming back from
Gibraltar in an assault carrier, a small carrier, we were coming back from
the Mediterranean and we called in at Gibraltar and we picked up the
Governor of Gibraltar, who was a very ancient man, he must have been seventy
or eighty, and he - instead of dining with the captain - he stayed with the
junior officers in the wardroom. And he had a repertoire of very old songs.
And I only remember one. And it's a song that goes back to sailing days,
long, long before we had powered ships. And.I don't know if you're familiar
with the rigging of a square-rigged ship, but you know a lot of them had
three masts : a forem'st, a mainm'st, and a mizzenm'st. And any sail on the
mainm'st was called a mains'l. the big sail was called a mains'l, and all
the sails going up, the sails as they got smaller had different names. And
right at the top was the tops'l - the topsail. And above that was the
t'gallants'l. And he sang a song about the topgallants'l. And it employed
that very, very old device of never mentioning the bad word."
