!!!mutiny!!!

[USCGRET1990]

Don't let this happen to you!

Ships Log, June 5, 1970.

Everybody,(needs to)listen to me, and return me, my ship.
I'm your captain, I'm your captain, (though I'm feeling mighty sick.)
I've been lost now, days uncounted, and it's months since,
I've seen home. Can you hear me, or am I all alone?
If you return me, to my home port, I will kiss you, mother earth.
Take me back now, take me back now, to the port, of my birth.
Am I in my cabin dreaming, or are you really scheming, to take my ship away from me. They better think about it, I just can't live without it, so please don't take my ship from me. Yeah.
I can feel the hand, of a stranger, and it's tightening, around my throat.
Heaven help me, heaven help me, take this stranger, from my boat.
I'm your captain, I'm your captain, though I'm feeling mighty sick.
Everybody, listen to me, and return me, my ship,
I'm your captain...I'm your captain...

[Giulietta]

As armas e os barões assinalados,
Que da ocidental praia Lusitana,
Por mares nunca de antes navegados,
Passaram ainda além da Taprobana,
Em perigos e guerras esforçados,
Mais do que prometia a força humana,
E entre gente remota edificaram
Novo Reino, que tanto sublimaram;

E também as memórias gloriosas
Daqueles Reis, que foram dilatando
A Fé, o Império, e as terras viciosas
De África e de Ásia andaram devastando;
E aqueles, que por obras valerosas
Se vão da lei da morte libertando;
Cantando espalharei por toda parte,
Se a tanto me ajudar o engenho e arte.


Cessem do sábio Grego e do Troiano
As navegações grandes que fizeram;
Cale-se de Alexandro e de Trajano
A fama das vitórias que tiveram;
Que eu canto o peito ilustre Lusitano,
A quem Neptuno e Marte obedeceram:
Cesse tudo o que a Musa antígua canta,
Que outro valor mais alto se alevanta.


E vós, Tágides minhas, pois criado
Tendes em mim um novo engenho ardente,
Se sempre em verso humilde celebrado
Foi de mim vosso rio alegremente,
Dai-me agora um som alto e sublimado,
Um estilo grandíloquo e corrente,
Porque de vossas águas, Febo ordene
Que não tenham inveja às de Hipoerene.

[Giulietta]

Which for you my "single language" friends translates roughly into::::

ARMS and the Heroes, who from Lisbon’s shore,
Thro’ seas 2 where sail was never spread before,
Beyond where Ceylon lifts her spicy breast,
And waves her woods above the wat’ry waste,



p. 2

With prowess more than human forc’d their way
To the fair kingdoms of the rising day:
What wars they wag’d, what seas, what dangers pass’d,
What glorious empire crown’d their toils at last,
Vent’rous I sing, on soaring pinions borne,
And all my country’s wars 1 the song adorn;
What kings, what heroes of my native land
Thunder’d on Asia’s and on Afric’s strand:
Illustrious shades, who levell’d in the dust
The idol-temples and the shrines of lust:
And where, erewhile, foul demons were rever’d,
To Holy Faith unnumber’d altars rear’d: 2
Illustrious names, with deathless laurels crown’d,
While time rolls on in every clime renown’d!

Let Fame with wonder name the Greek 3 no more,
What lands he saw, what toils at sea he bore;
Nor more the Trojan’s wand’ring 4 voyage boast,
What storms he brav’d on many a perilous coast:
No more let Rome exult in Trajan’s name,
Nor Eastern conquests Ammon’s 5 pride proclaim;
A nobler hero’s deeds demand my lays
Than e’er adorn’d the song of ancient days,
Illustrious GAMA, 6 whom the waves obey’d,
And whose dread sword the fate of empire sway’d.







p. 3

And you, fair nymphs of Tagus, parent stream,
If e’er your meadows were my pastoral theme,
While you have listen’d, and by moonshine seen
My footsteps wander o’er your banks of green,
O come auspicious, and the song inspire
With all the boldness of your hero’s fire:
Deep and majestic let the numbers flow,
And, rapt to heaven, with ardent fury glow,
Unlike the verse that speaks the lover’s grief,
When heaving sighs afford their soft relief,
And humble reeds bewail the shepherd’s pain;
But like the warlike trumpet be the strain
To rouse the hero’s ire, and far around,
With equal rage, your warriors’ deeds resound.

And thou, 1 O born the pledge of happier days,
To guard our freedom and our glories raise,

[USCGRET1990]

Amigo, that is way too heavy and complicated for my wheat juice
influated pea brain...

[USCGRET1990]

Just when I thought all was well on the seas...
Seventy-three men sailed up...
From the San Francisco Bay,
Rolled off of their ship
And here's what they had to say.
"We're callin' everyone to ride along
To another shore,
We can laugh our lives away
and be free once more."
But no one heard them callin',
No one came at all,
'Cause they were too busy watchin'
Those old raindrops fall.
As a storm was blowin'
Out on the peaceful sea,
Seventy-three men sailed off
To history.
Ride, captain ride
Upon your mystery ship,
Be amazed at the friends
You have here on your trip.
Ride captain ride
Upon your mystery ship,
On your way to a world
That others might have missed.
(Instrumental)
Seventy-three men sailed up
From the San Francisco Bay,
Got off their ship
And here's what they had to say.
"We're callin' everyone to ride along
To another shore,
We can laugh our lives away
And be free once more."
Ride, captain ride
Upon your mystery ship,
Be amazed at the friends
You have here on your trip.
Ride, captain ride
Upon your mystery ship,
On your way to a world
That others might have missed.
Ride, captain ride
Upon your mystery ship,
Be amazed at the friends
You have here on your trip.

[TrueBlue]

What's with all the cut & paste posts you've been making lately US???

[USCGRET1990]

Originally Posted by TrueBlue

What's with all the cut & paste posts you've been making lately US???

Sorry, sailnet has been boring...just been trying to liven things up...is it annoying??

[TrueBlue]

No CG . . . just yanking your anchor chain - because it has been boring lately.

I should be working anyway. (g)

[USCGRET1990]

Originally Posted by TrueBlue

No CG . . . just yanking your anchor chain - because it has been boring lately.

I should be working anyway. (g)

Thanx, Amigo...all goes ta hell without Alex, doesn't it?!
At any rate, please will your boat to me, it's the only way I will ever get one..!

[TrueBlue]

At any rate, please will your boat to me, it's the only way I will ever get one..!

Sure thing CG . . . but you're assuming Davy Jones will claim me first?