JODY'S TREASURE CHEST
Come with me to the sea, to the sea
Have shipwrecks, find Mermaids
ask Pirates to tea.
or maybe listen to The Yarn of the Nancy Bell
as told to you, as you look at the lovely pictures.
The Yarn of the Nancy Bell
His hair was weedy, his beard was long,'Twas on the shores that round our coast
From Deal to Ramsgate span,
That I found alone on a piece of stone
An elderly naval man.
His hair was weedy, his beard was long,
And weedy and long was he,
And I heard this wight on the shore recite,
In a singular minor key:
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The video that accompanies this poem by W. S. Gilbert I found on YouTube, in one word "hilarious" done at home with shadow puppets, from The Schooner Adventuress. It really is so very good.
I have to leave the comment myself as the poem is very long, and the picture images I found here on Google really set it off. Enjoy.
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