MORE ABOUT PIRATES AND CANNIBALS

The longboats of the sorry wreck

Brought pirate men ashore.

Cloony, hiding on the deck

Was not too keen on desert isles

And cannibals with pointed smiles

And so he thought he’d stick it out and wait for dawn to come.

The longboats landed on the beach

The pirates disembarked.

Cloony sat and ate a peach,

And looked around the captain’s bed,

And wondered what the captain read,

And downed another glass of rum and ran himself a bath.

The longboats lay on golden sand

The pirates all were gone.

They really were a dismal band,

And filled the guts of native folk

Who have no time to sing and joke

But have enormous appetites for men and fish and fowl.

At dawn the ship broke free again

And Cloony floated off,

And soon was in Dundee again,

With captain’s robes and piles of gold,

But luck is hard and luck is cold

For Cloony was arrested as a pirate and was hanged.