Spacecat First Mangy Fur's computer generated voice singing?:
<What'll we do with a drunken spacecat,>
<What'll we do with a drunken spacecat,>
<What'll we do with a drunken spacecat,>
<Earl-aye in the morning?>
<We'll tie his paws spread eagle,>
<We'll tie his paws spread eagle,>
<We'll tie his paws spread eagle,>
<Earl-aye in the morning?>
<Weigh heigh and down the air-duct>
<Weigh heigh and down the air-duct>
<Weigh heigh and down the air-duct>
<Earl-aye in the morning>
<We'll feed him celery until he bursts,>
<We'll feed him celery until he bursts,>
<We'll feed him celery until he bursts,>
<Earl-aye in the morning?>
<Weigh heigh and down the air-duct>
<Weigh heigh and down the air-duct>
<Weigh heigh and down the air-duct>
<Earl-aye in the morning>
<Give him all the shrimp and celery egg-rolls he wants,>
<Give him all the shrimp and celery egg-rolls he wants,>
<Give him all the shrimp and celery egg-rolls he wants,>
<Earl-aye in the morning?>
<Weigh heigh and down the air-duct>
<Weigh heigh and down the air-duct>
<Weigh heigh and down the air-duct>
<Earl-aye in the morning>
<Give him some more shrimp and celery egg-rolls,>
<Give him some more shrimp and celery egg-rolls,>
<Give him some more shrimp and celery egg-rolls,>
<Earl-aye in the morning?>
<Weigh heigh and down the air-duct>
<Weigh heigh and down the air-duct>
<Weigh heigh and down the air-duct>
<Earl-aye in the morning>
<Give him even more shrimp and celery egg-rolls,>
<Give him even more shrimp and celery egg-rolls,>
<Give him even more shrimp and celery egg-rolls,>
<Earl-aye in the morning?>
<Weigh heigh and down the air-duct>
<Weigh heigh and down the air-duct>
<Weigh heigh and down the air-duct>
<Earl-aye in the morning>
<Put him in bed with a full belly,>
<Put him in bed with a full belly,>
<Put him in bed with a full belly,>
<Earl-aye in the morning?>
<Weigh heigh and down the air-duct>
<Weigh heigh and down the air-duct>
<Weigh heigh and down the air-duct>
<Earl-aye in the morning>
<That's what we do with a drunken Spacecat,>
<That's what we do with a drunken Spacecat,>
<That's what we do with a drunken Spacecat,>
<Earl-aye in the morning
Chief Poker Mind, "Avast you walking flea circus I'll go check with cookie, just quit singing that song! Good thing he's no good at poker and owes me."
CPO Poker Mind
SOB = Squid On Beach, and Mangy Fur the Smart Alick Spacecat First.<Get extra he owes me too, he has no poker-mind!> "Bleek, bleek, bleek,"
Chief Poker Mind, "Now hear this, Snotties, the Old Chief will put on his professorial hat and profess the comments below in brackets [comment] will help those who don't understand the antique terms used in the wet water navy on old Terra:"
Song text
Intro:
What'll we do with a drunken sailor,
What'll we do with a drunken sailor,
What'll we do with a drunken sailor,
Earl-aye in the morning?
Chorus:
Weigh heigh and up she rises
Weigh heigh and up she rises
Weigh heigh and up she rises
Earl-aye in the morning
Ending Chorus:
That's what we do with a drunken Sailor,
That's what we do with a drunken Sailor,
That's what we do with a drunken Sailor,
Earl-aye in the morning
Traditional verses:
1. Shave his belly with a rusty razor,(x3)
[Rusty straight rasors were dull and pulled the hair and leave a reddened and sore shaved area.]
2. Put him in the long boat till he's sober,(x3)
[Longboats were traditionally towed behind the ship to save deck space, thus keeping your mate out of the officer's sight.]
3. Put him in the scuppers with a hawse pipe on him.(x3)
[A scupper is a hole in the side of the ship on the weather deck, the deck with no decks above. A hause pipe is a canvas hose from the manually operated ship's pump that removes the water from the bilge, the space below the lowest deck and the hull.]
4. Put him in bed with the captain's daughter.(x3)
[Corporal punishment was used in ancient times beating the back with a short whip called a cat of nine tails. The saying 'not enough room to swing a cat,' comes from the fact the cramped quarters of old Terran sailing ships one could not whip a sailor. The term 'in bed with the captain's daughter' is a term meaning being lashed with the cat of nine tails (the captain's daughter).]
Song Pattern:song starts with the intro it then proceeds to the Chorus then it follows following pattern
Verse 1 (x3),Earl-aye in the morning?,chorus,
Verse 2 (x3),Earl-aye in the morning?,chorus,
Verse 3 (x3),Earl-aye in the morning?,chorus,
Verse 4 (x3),Earl-aye in the morning?, chorus
Ending Chorus
Thats what we do with a drunken sailor
Additional verses:
5. Beat him with a cat 'til his back is bleedin'
[Another whipping 'a cat' is short for a cat of nine tails.]
6. Put him in the bilge and make him drink it
[Ugh the water in the bilge is the foulest immagineable, no one would willingly drink it.]
7. Truss him up with a runnin' bowline.
[Tie up your mate to keep him out of the officer's sight.]
8. Give 'im a dose of salt and water.
[Old time medicine to make one throw up and clean out the digestive tract, an old time hangover cure.]
9. Stick on 'is back a mustard plaster.
[A painful plaster on the back another old time hangover cure. Even more painful on a whipped back.]
10. Send him up the crow's nest till he falls down,
[Your mates must really not like you to do this, send you up the mast to fall to your death.]
11. Tie him to the taffrail when she's yardarm under,
[Again your mates don't like you a sheet (a rope to the sail's bottom) is sure to get you.]
12. Soak 'im in oil 'til he sprouts a flipper.
[ugh, clear enough]
13. Put him in the guard room 'til he's sober.
[guard room is an old term for brig, jail cell you lubbers.]
14. That's what we'll do with the drunken sailor.
15. Shave his balls with a rusty razor.
[See above, your mates must really dislike you.]
16. Make him the skipper of an Exxon tanker.
[Reference to a disastrous oil spill caused by a drunken Exxon tanker captain on old Terra.]
17. Give 'im the hair of the dog that bit him.
['hair of the dog that bit him,' some more alcohol another hang over cure?]
Variations:
1+. Keep him there and make 'im bale 'er.
[After putting in the longboat, usually leaky with a load he has to bale to keep afloat.]
2a. Pull out the plug and wet him all over,
[Remove the plug from a scupper and douse him with sea water if you like him or man the pump and douse him with bilge water if you don't.]
3a. Shave his back with a rusty razor.
[see above belly shaving.]
4a. Give 'im a taste of the bosun's rope-end.
[bosun or boat swains carried a short rope with a loop on the end to beat misbehaving sailors on old Terra.]
6a. Heave 'im by the leg with a runnin' bowline.
[Tie his leg and haul him upside down up into the rigging, look out below if he up chucks.]
Variation Of Chorus:
Hoo-ray and up she rises,
Hoo-ray and up she rises,
Hoo-ray and up she rises,
Earl-aye in the morning
OR----------------------------------------------
Way Way up she rises,
Way Way up she rises,
Way way up she rises,
Earl-aye in the morning
The above was lifted from Wikipedia.
The Chief, "Another line I have heard is 'Make him kiss the gunner's daughter.' This Snotties refers to a punishment reserved mostly for Snotties on Old Terra where the midshipman was made to lean over an ancient muzzle loading cannon, the gunner's daughter, prior to a beating on the Snotties rear end. Arr- too bad we can't do that in the RMN,"
<Chief you are too blood thirsty, how about going to get those shrimp and celery egg-rolls.>
and, Mangy Fur the Smart Alick Spacecat.
