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Perhaps you all have heard of a yarn,

Of a famous large sea-snake,

That once was seen off the Isle Pitcairn,

And caught by Admiral Blake.

Now list not what land lubbers tell,

But give an ear to me;

And I'll tell you what me befell,

'Cause I'm just come from sea.

Tol lol, &c.

This snake he measured milos twice two,

But there they surely lied;

For I was one of the very ship's crew

By whom its length was tried.

One morning from his head we bore,

With every stitch of sail;

And going at ten knots an hour,

In six months came to his tail.

Tol lol, &c.

As curl'd all up this snake did lay,

Five hundred miles about,

A ship by chance came by that way,

For a colony set out.

This snake mistook for their promised lands,

A greivous thing, good lack!

Men, women, babes, 'a thousand hands,

All lodg'd on this snake's back!

Tol, lol, &c.

And there they lived for a year or two,

With oxen, pigs, and sheep;