Helena Nelson
Landlubber's Song
O livery livery liver-me-lee
Give me a long, long liver.
Merry O sherry and cheery with beer,
Me timbers were ready to shiver.
Toxins and poxins flushed out like dioxins
Thanks to my livery liver.
O livery livery liver-me-lee
Give me a long, long liver.
Perry was fine; port was divine:
Drank it from morning to quiver,
Never the sort to waste any thought
On a quivery shivery liver.
O livery livery liver-me-lee
Give me a long, long liver.
Brandy and shandy and Armagnac!
Sing to the moon Moon River
But soon the boon in the afternoon
Oblivionates your obliver.
O livery livery liver-me-lee
Give me a long, long liver.
Whisky is lubberly, lubberly loo –
O for the now or niver –
Singing O liver, O liver my love,
Leave me or lose me foriver.
O livery livery liver-me-lee
Give me a long, long liver.
Up spak a daughter: Drink water, sez she.
Take it with cake (just a sliver).
The past is away, the future’s next week.
Here is the answer I give her:
Come along liver, O liver my love
Shape up O liver, old liver.
O livery livery liver-me-lee
Give me a long, long liver.
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