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There it is and it was
In its wooden glory
There it is SS Nigeria
Look at the helm
Look st the main deck
Look at the wheel
Look at the captain's cabin
Look at the skylight
Look at the cannons, light and
heavy.
What has she not?
What be missing?
Why be the same route we treading?
Why isn't the captain calling?
Why are the officers meddling?
Why are they preventing the
captain from thinking?
Port some say
Starboard another say.
Indeed one be the way
Why is it the mind of the captain
won't sway?
Why is he stiff on the wheel?
Where the the first mate?
Where he be i cant locate?
I see him with the captain
What he be whispering?
Why the captain be smiling?
Why, I know the smile.
It be the smile of greed.
It has been smiled by captains
past.
Then, our destiny has been cast
How long would we last?
That smile be the smile of the
ones before him
The future of this ship be dim.
The skies are dark ahead
I hear it, the pit and patter of
the rain on the deck
Stop rain the deck already be a
wreck
It hath been holed it be rotting
It hath hurt the crew
The sick bay be ill
The hurt crew member it cannot
heal
Then I heard a scream
The all familiar name
Pirates!
In their glory around
Bout abound
To your stations go laddies
Nay not one moved
The gun powder be wet, they said
The guns be rusty they said
Cannons be rusty they said
Then I said we be dead.
Our faces in fear it white
In our gloom the captians face be
light
Drop the sail he ordered.
I was aghast
For the ship he didn't care
His way of leadership rare
No, it be common to the black seas
The captain be focused on island
before him
I be focused on the maelstrom
before him
All hope lost at the what cost
At the cost of a familiar chink
In despair I resign
Admist the end I ask
What will kill us first?
They responded that be an easy
task
For neither the pirates nor the
maelstrom
But our own inaction and the
pirates action
We have died
Good bye sinking ship Nigeria.
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