Navy Larks

Jumping Jack Tarpaulin
sailed on the Trampoline;
broke his leg and a ship's porthole,
when he tried the Window Lean.

Able Seaman Sample
slipped in the surgeon's bunk,
they both took a swipe of an opium pipe
and tripped on the Chinese Junk.

Third Mate Blind Lemon Bickerstaff
could whistle through his ears,
when he played the ocarina with his feet,
it could bring grown men to tears.

Captain William Posters,
was wanted by the law
for flyer-by-night operations
to help him sell his Macaw.

The figurehead was missing -
jumped ship in Mandalay -
ran off with a pig-tailed galley hand
to a brothel in Bombay.