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Saturday, 11 July 2009

The Yarn of the Nancy Bell, with video attraction, brilliant

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: