《The Walloping Window Blind》歌词

[00:00:00] The Walloping Window Blind - Natalie Merchant

[00:00:10] A capital ship for an ocean trip

[00:00:12] Was "The Walloping Window Blind;"

[00:00:14] No gale that blew dismayed her crew

[00:00:16] Or troubled the captain's mind

[00:00:18] The man at the wheel was taught to feel

[00:00:20] Contempt for the wildest blow

[00:00:22] And it often appeared when the weather had cleared

[00:00:24] That he'd been in his bunk below

[00:00:36] The boatswain's mate was very sedate

[00:00:38] Yet fond of amusement too;

[00:00:40] And he played hop-scotch with the starboard watch

[00:00:42] While the captain tickled the crew

[00:00:45] And the gunner we had was apparently mad

[00:00:47] For he sat on the after-rail

[00:00:50] And fired salutes with the captain's boots

[00:00:51] In the teeth of the booming gale

[00:00:57] The captain sat in a commodore's hat

[00:00:59] And dined in a royal way

[00:01:01] On toasted pigs and pickles and figs

[00:01:03] And gummery bread each day

[00:01:05] But the rest of us ate from an odious plate;

[00:01:07] For the food that was given the crew

[00:01:09] Was a number of tons of hot-cross buns

[00:01:11] Chopped up with sugar and glue

[00:01:23] And we all felt ill as mariners will

[00:01:25] On a diet that's cheap and rude;

[00:01:27] And the deck shook when we dipped the cook

[00:01:29] In a tub of his gluesome food

[00:01:36] Then nautical pride we laid aside

[00:01:38] And we cast the vessel ashore

[00:01:40] On the Gulliby Isles where the Poohpooh smiles

[00:01:42] And the Anagazanders roar

[00:02:06] Composed of sand was that favored land

[00:02:09] And trimmed with cinnamon straws;

[00:02:11] And pink and blue was the pleasing hue

[00:02:14] Of the Tickletoeteaser's claws

[00:02:19] And we sat on the edge of a sandy ledge

[00:02:21] And shot at the whistling bee;

[00:02:23] And the Binnacle-bats wore water-proof hats

[00:02:25] As they danced in the sounding sea

[00:02:31] On rubagub bark from dawn to dark

[00:02:33] We fed till we all had grown

[00:02:35] Uncommonly shrunk when a Chinese junk

[00:02:37] Came by from the torriby zone

[00:02:42] She was stubby and square but we didn't much care

[00:02:45] And we cheerily put to sea;

[00:02:46] And we left the crew of the junk to chew

[00:02:49] The bark of the rubagub tree