(Of course, the fact that the shantyman's job *onboard ship* has been dead and gone a century or more doesn't mean that his job in the pub or on the concert hall stage is done, no, not atall... I've had the pleasure of hearing a few live. Hank Cramer and the "Crew of the Constellation" (among whose number was Heather Alexander, who was known to sing a shanty or two of her own), Séan McCann late of Great Big Sea... and then there was a certain Ontario chap who got tired of singing chanteys because he could sing along but never got to sing lead .... so he wrote one of his own, about a leaky, near-derelict Canadian privateer named the Antelope, so he could sing lead...
No, of *course* I didn't forget. How *could* I?
o/~ So here I sit in twenty-eighteen How I wish there was more fanfic now It's been five years since the lyrics post I've gotta stop laughing, or give up the ghost! God help us all! I was told We'd peruse for free, refining gold, We'd sire no puns, spread no jeers. Now I'm a broken fan laughing into my beer The last of Barrette's Private Ears.
(No, of course, it's not that bad, I can breathe, really... but it *is* just that good... and of *course* I had to tweak it. Because *filk*. ;)
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dancing_serpent
Re: Well ...
Date: 2018-01-18 11:38 pm (UTC)No, of *course* I didn't forget. How *could* I?
o/~ So here I sit in twenty-eighteen
How I wish there was more fanfic now
It's been five years since the lyrics post
I've gotta stop laughing, or give up the ghost!
God help us all! I was told
We'd peruse for free, refining gold,
We'd sire no puns, spread no jeers.
Now I'm a broken fan laughing into my beer
The last of Barrette's Private Ears.
(No, of course, it's not that bad, I can breathe, really... but it *is* just that good... and of *course* I had to tweak it. Because *filk*. ;)