The Walloping Window Blind-Natalie Merchant

[ti:The Walloping Window Blind] [ar:Natalie Merchant] [al:Leave Your Sleep] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]The Walloping Window Blind - Natalie Merchant [00:10.34]A capital ship for an ocean trip [00:12.09]Was "The Walloping Window Blind;" [00:14.21]No gale that blew dismayed her crew [00:16.40]Or troubled the captain's mind [00:18.28]The man at the wheel was taught to feel [00:20.59]Contempt for the wildest blow [00:22.40]And it often appeared when the weather had cleared [00:24.80]That he'd been in his bunk below [00:27.27] [00:36.46]The boatswain's mate was very sedate [00:38.24]Yet fond of amusement too; [00:40.18]And he played hop-scotch with the starboard watch [00:42.37]While the captain tickled the crew [00:44.56] [00:45.59]And the gunner we had was apparently mad [00:47.65]For he sat on the after-rail [00:50.03]And fired salutes with the captain's boots [00:51.98]In the teeth of the booming gale [00:54.45] [00:57.21]The captain sat in a commodore's hat [00:59.02]And dined in a royal way [01:01.04]On toasted pigs and pickles and figs [01:03.20]And gummery bread each day [01:05.27]But the rest of us ate from an odious plate; [01:07.50]For the food that was given the crew [01:09.50]Was a number of tons of hot-cross buns [01:11.75]Chopped up with sugar and glue [01:14.19] [01:23.17]And we all felt ill as mariners will [01:25.12]On a diet that's cheap and rude; [01:27.19]And the deck shook when we dipped the cook [01:29.32]In a tub of his gluesome food [01:35.58] [01:36.83]Then nautical pride we laid aside [01:38.66]And we cast the vessel ashore [01:40.78]On the Gulliby Isles where the Poohpooh smiles [01:42.91]And the Anagazanders roar [01:46.67] [02:06.58]Composed of sand was that favored land [02:09.06]And trimmed with cinnamon straws; [02:11.83]And pink and blue was the pleasing hue [02:14.76]Of the Tickletoeteaser's claws [02:19.80]And we sat on the edge of a sandy ledge [02:21.93]And shot at the whistling bee; [02:23.74]And the Binnacle-bats wore water-proof hats [02:25.49]As they danced in the sounding sea [02:28.05] [02:31.05]On rubagub bark from dawn to dark [02:33.30]We fed till we all had grown [02:35.36]Uncommonly shrunk when a Chinese junk [02:37.38]Came by from the torriby zone [02:42.45]She was stubby and square but we didn't much care [02:45.27]And we cheerily put to sea; [02:46.83]And we left the crew of the junk to chew [02:49.03]The bark of the rubagub tree