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I SING a legend of the sea	A
So hard a port upon your lee	A
A ship on starboard tack	B
She's bound upon a private cruise	C
This is the kind of spice I use	D
To give a salt sea smack	B
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Behold on every afternoon	E
Save in a gale or strong Monsoon	E
Great CAPTAIN CAPEL CLEGGS	D
Great morally though rather short	F
Sat at an open weather port	F
And aired his shapely legs	D
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And Mermaids hung around in flocks	D
On cable chains and distant rocks	D
To gaze upon those limbs	D
For legs like those of flesh and bone	G
Are things not generally known	G
To any Merman TIMBS	D
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But Mermen didn't seem to care	H
Much time as far as I'm aware	H
With CLEGGS'S legs to spend	I
Though Mermaids swam around all day	J
And gazed exclaiming THAT'S the way	J
A gentleman should end	I
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A pair of legs with well cut knees	D
And calves and ankles such as these	D
Which we in rapture hail	K
Are far more eloquent it's clear	L
When clothed in silk and kerseymere	L
Than any nasty tail	K
	-
And CLEGGS a worthy kind old boy	M
Rejoiced to add to others' joy	M
And when the day was dry	L
Because it pleased the lookers on	N
He sat from morn till night though con	N
Stitutionally shy	L
	-
At first the Mermen laughed Pooh pooh	O
But finally they jealous grew	O
And sounded loud recalls	D
But vainly So these fishy males	D
Declared they too would clothe their tails	D
In silken hose and smalls	D
	-
They set to work these water men	P
And made their nether robes but when	P
They drew with dainty touch	Q
The kerseymere upon their tails	D
They found it scraped against their scales	D
And hurt them very much	Q
	-
The silk besides with which they chose	D
To deck their tails by way of hose	D
They never thought of shoon	P
For such a use was much too thin	P
It tore against the caudal fin	P
And went in ladders soon	P
	-
So they designed another plan	P
They sent their most seductive man	P
This note to him to show	R
Our Monarch sends to CAPTAIN CLEGGS	D
His humble compliments and begs	D
He'll join him down below	R
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We've pleasant homes below the sea	D
Besides if CAPTAIN CLEGGS should be	D
As our advices say	D
A judge of Mermaids he will find	S
Our lady fish of every kind	S
Inspection will repay	D
	-
Good CAPEL sent a kind reply	L
For CAPEL thought he could descry	O
An admirable plan	P
To study all their ways and laws	D
But not their lady fish because	D
He was a married man	P
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The Merman sank the Captain too	O
Jumped overboard and dropped from view	O
Like stone from catapult	T
And when he reached the Merman's lair	O
He certainly was welcomed there	O
But ah with what result	T
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They didn't let him learn their law	U
Or make a note of what he saw	U
Or interesting mem	V
The lady fish he couldn't find	S
But that of course he didn't mind	S
He didn't come for them	V
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For though when CAPTAIN CAPEL sank	W
The Mermen drawn in double rank	W
Gave him a hearty hail	K
Yet when secure of CAPTAIN CLEGGS	U
They cut off both his lovely legs	U
And gave him SUCH a tail	K
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When CAPTAIN CLEGGS returned aboard	X
His blithesome crew convulsive roar'd	X
To see him altered so	U
The Admiralty did insist	Y
That he upon the Half pay List	Y
Immediately should go	U
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In vain declared the poor old salt	Z
It's my misfortune not my fault	Z
With tear and trembling lip	A2
In vain poor CAPEL begged and begged	B2
A man must be completely legged	C2
Who rules a British ship	A2
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So spake the stern First Lord aloud	D2
He was a wag though very proud	D2
And much rejoiced to say	U
You're only half a captain now	P
And so my worthy friend I vow	P
You'll only get half pay	U

William Schwenck Gilbert

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