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A sinner was old Captain Dan	A
His wives guv him no rest	B
He had one wife to East Skiddaw	B
And one to Skiddaw West	B
	-
Now Ann Eliza was the name	C
Of her at East Skiddaw	B
She was the most cantankerous	D
Female you ever saw	E
	-
I don't know but one crosser grained	B
And of this Captain Dan	A
She was the wife at Skiddaw West	B
She was Eliza Ann	A
	-
Well this old skeesicks Captain Dan	A
He owned a ferryboat	B
From East Skiddaw to Skiddaw West	B
That vessel used to float	B
	-
She was as trim a ferry craft	B
As ever I did see	F
And on each end a p'inted bow	G
And pilothouse had she	F
	-
She had two bows that way so when	H
She went acrost the sound	B
She could to oncet run back ag'in	I
Without a turnin' round	B
	-
Now Captain Dan he sailed that boat	B
For nigh on twenty year	J
Acrost that sound and back ag'in	I
Like I have stated here	K
	-
And never oncet in all them years	L
Had Ann Eliza guessed	B
That Dan he had another wife	M
So nigh as Skiddaw West	B
	-
Likewise Eliza Ann was blind	B
Howas she never saw	E
As Dan he had another wife	M
Acrost to East Skiddaw	B
	-
The way he fooled them female wives	N
Was by a simple plan	A
That come into the artful brain	O
Of that there Captain Dan	A
	-
With paint upon that ferry craft	B
In letters plain to see	F
Upon the bow to wit both ends	P
Her name he painted she	F
	-
Upon the bow toward East Skiddaw	B
This sinful Captain Dan	A
He painted just one single word	B
The same which it was Ann	A
	-
And on the bow toward Skiddaw West	B
He likewise put one name	C
And not no more and I will state	B
Eliza was that same	C
	-
Thus when she berthed to Skiddaw West	B
Eliza Ann could see	F
How Dan for love and gratitood	B
Had named her after she	F
	-
And likewise when to East Skiddaw	B
That boat bow foremost came	C
His Ann Eliza plain could see	F
The vessel bore her name	C
	-
Thuswise for nigh on twenty year	J
As I remarked before	Q
Dan cumfuscated them two wives	N
And sailed from shore to shore	Q
	-
I reckon he might to this day	B
Have kept his sinful ways	R
And fooled them trustin' female wives	N
Except there come a haze	R
	-
It was a thick November haze	R
Accompanied by frost	B
And Dan in steerin' 'crost the sound	B
He got his bearin's lost	B
	-
So Dan he cast his anchor out	B
And anchored on the sound	B
And when the haze riz some next day	B
His boat had swung clean round	B
	-
So not bethinkin' how it was	S
Dan steered for Skiddaw West	B
For he had sot up all that night	B
And shorely needed rest	B
	-
Well when into his ferry slip	T
His ferry craft he ran	A
Upon the shore he seen his wife	M
To wit Eliza Ann	A
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Says he I'll tie this vessel up	U
And rest about a week	V
I need a rest and 't was just then	H
He heard an awful shriek	V
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O Villyun shrieked Eliza Ann	A
Oh What what do I see	F
You don't not love me any more	Q
You've done deserted me	F
	-
She pointed to that ferry craft	B
With one wild vicious stare	W
Dan looked and seen the telltale name	C
Of Ann a painted there	W
	-
What could he do He done his best	B
Lost Lost Alas he cried	B
And kicking off his rubber boots	X
Jumped overboard and died	B

Ellis Parker Butler

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