Poor Nessie

1 week ago by @overflow

Poor Nessie

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Liner Notes

My first skirmish! Thank you, I needed something fun! It turns out the writing AND recording part was super challenging in just an hour, so I’m a little late to post.

Lyrics

In yesteryear, and maybe before,
There was a great lizard in tales of yore
Her berth was huge, and her mouth ate more
Than any great whale of today.

On the floor of the deep, she was older than old,
Her head it was tiny, and covered in mold,
And the fate of her life we’d never have knowed
If it weren’t for Captain O’Leary.

(Chorus) Oh Nessie, oh Nessie, you see
She’s stuck in this loch,
which once was a sea,
She flips and she dips,
Trying ever to flee,
Back to her briny home.

Now that brave pirate captain I’ve already named
Liked to go hunting for really big game,
So he stirred up the waters and hoped he could find,
The biggest fish in the sea.

To his great surprise Big Old Nessie leaped out,
She sailed through the air, Cap’n shouted, “Look out!”
She flopped to the water quite close the shore
of what we now call Scotland.

(Chorus)

The tidal wave her great body made
Sent the ship to it’s watery grave,
And the land between the two of them made
A fishbowl for poor Nessie.

It’s been over a thousand years
And still Nessie swims in a bath of her tears,
As people snap photos from the many piers
On the shores of the great Loch Ness.

(Chorus)

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