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To: King Prout

You forgot to mention the tune.

She won't know how to sing it.


2,192 posted on 08/11/2005 9:44:36 PM PDT by TASMANIANRED (Conservatives are from Earth. Liberals are from Uranus.(c))
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To: TASMANIANRED; nopardons
You forgot to mention the tune. She won't know how to sing it.

ah, ok - old sailing shanty, popular among Yankees, English, Aussies, etc... sailors AND cattlemen, it seems...

uncountable variations exist, modified from an old British Navy capstan shanty. hold on...

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=farewell+and+adieu+to+you&btnG=Google+Search

relevant excerpt from Jaws:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073195/quotes

Quint: [seeing Hooper's equipment] What are you? Some kind of half-assed astronaut? [examining the shark cage]
Quint: Jesus H Christ, when I was a boy, every little squirt wanted to be a harpooner or a sword fisherman. What d'ya have there - a portable shower or a monkey cage?
Hooper: Anti-Shark cage.
Quint: Anti-shark cage. You go inside the cage?
[Hooper nods]
Quint: Cage goes in the water, you go in the water. Shark's in the water. Our shark.
[sings]
Quint: Farewell and adieu to you, fair Spanish ladies. Farewell and adieu, you ladies of Spain. For we've received orders for to sail back to Boston. And so nevermore shall we see you again.

the sound of it at the following addy:
http://www.jawsmovie.com/1/sounds.asp
(scroll to "farewell.wav")

2,214 posted on 08/11/2005 10:02:45 PM PDT by King Prout (and the Clinton Legacy continues: like Herpes, it is a gift that keeps on giving.)
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