SCHOONERS AT DIGBY

(Gough and Sulanowski)



Oh, the old Ernestina and the Anna Christina

All rafted up there at Digby.

While one was a plug and the other pristiner

But both of them fine schooner rig-by.

And we went for a ride on the four-story tide

A sight to every land-lubber

The tidal fantastic called for gangways elastic

And bow, stern and springlines of rubber.



cho: O the old schooner life has its ups and downs

At least that's the case there in old Digby town

You jump to the ratlines to get to the deck

But watch that first step, or you might break your neck!



We invited the town, all of Digby came down

To see them two schooners so gaffy

Together, some two hundred years they'd been 'round

But never with crews quite so daffy.

But gettin' the folks from the docks to the decks

Without compound fractures of backs, heads and necks

Was as tricky as gettin' 'em back to the docks

With the water behavin' like Panama Locks.



Well, I'm happy tell that nobody fell

Although there weren't no good solutions;

For the rollin' and twitchin' and tossin' and pitchin'

In time to the tide's evolution.

It came down to a case of schooner elevation

An oceanic reaction to lunar agitation

And whether a little old lady mught ruin her vacation

By bustin' her bum on the decks.



(Final four lines semi-spoken with extreme rubato)

Note: Reportedly, a retelling of a reportedly true happening in

1990. Digby has an over-25-foot tide.

@sailor

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