Sea Shanty Shepton
Oh come to the Mendips
Where the rain drizzles down
And the cows are like seals who swim over the crown
Of the grass which swells
Like a giant tsunami to Wells
And the sheep are like dolphins skimming along
Ducking and diving singing whale song
The rabbits are the tuna leaping in the air
Badgers are the monkfish, Salmon are our hares
And we are the sailors fishing in these seas
Leas of green grasses, gardens of green peas
Bringing on our sea fruit, water raspberry
Marine cabbages and the nautical Strawberry
As we plough the paths with mattocks,
As we scythe or strim the grass tussocks
We sing our sea shanty songs
To the moon and the sun
Oh I wish to be a real sailor hauling out to sea
But I'm in my tractor ploughing the brown lea
Oh our straits are real narrow,
they are as wide a wheel barrow
And my moles do burrow furrows like twisting eels
And we have furlongs and leagues for our steeds
no 49th Parallel nor sea horses indeed
If you're looking for the Rock of Gibraltar
You could do no better than the Glastonbury tower
That sits like an island in the stream
Yet we still have our sea shanty dream
That we are battling spray jets
Hunting whales for bets
Porpoises and dolphins seen
Somewhere jumping over fields of green
You may see storms fronts rolling in
But we see hedges trapping us on the Mendips
As the shore is lapping thin
But we keep on a hopin'
There will be some ropin'
So we keep on haulin' in
For we may catch a whale
If you never try, you never fail
And if we keep tryin' we may eventually win
C'est Fin!
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