[NicknamedBob]

I can understand your unfamiliarity with the song lyrics, I share it, but surely you have heard of Ulysses, and his exposure to the sirens in Homer's epic "Odyssey?"

[Knitting A Conundrum]

"At sea once more we had to pass the Sirens, whose sweet singing lures sailors to their doom. I had stopped up the ears of my crew with wax, and I alone listened while lashed to the mast, powerless to steer toward shipwreck.

Next came Charybdis, who swallows the sea in a whirlpool, then spits it up again. Avoiding this we skirted the cliff where Scylla exacts her toll. Each of her six slavering maws grabbed a sailor and wolfed him down.

Finally we were becalmed on the island of the Sun. My men disregarded all warnings and sacrificed his cattle, so back at sea Zeus sent a thunderbolt that smashed the ship. I alone survived, washing up on the island of Calypso."

Oddessy, book 12

[eskimo]

I can understand your unfamiliarity with the song lyrics, I share it, but surely you have heard of Ulysses, and his exposure to the sirens in Homer's epic "Odyssey?"

I read that more than half a century ago.