Little Man In The Boat

As we shared a whiskey flask

My love took me to task

To mount an expedition

Beyond my wildest hope

A mission fraught with danger-

To save a man in a boat

She said I'd know his oilskins

By now quite slick and wet

And the shiny Sou'Wester rain hat

That sloped to protect his neck

She said that in the tempest

His hat might tend toward red...

I grabbed my oars and hunkered down

For nothing more be said

Against the tide as one we rowed

Tossed by growing swells

Faced with death, our sense grew sharp

With heightened taste and smell

As violent ocean ebbed and flowed,

With skill its hills we rode

"Put yer back in it,"

At one point, I heard the sailor cry

As the ocean roiled and tossed amid

Our frantic groans and sighs

We worked our aching bodies

Beyond what one should ask

Fighting 'gainst the rising storm

The mighty waves did crash

Till ocean calm returned once more

For me and my paramour-

Spent by the adventure

That we two had braved

A time of chase and glory

Forever we would note

The tale of how

That night I saved

A little man in a boat...

-DeRicki