The King sits in Dunfermline Town, Drinking the blood-red wine, O, where can I get a seely skipper To sail this ship o' mine
See, even then you couldn't get a seely skipper for love or money, and look what that unfortunate omission led to ...but that's wha' ye get if you go a sailing beneath the New Moon with the Old Moon in her arms , I guess.
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Date: 2008-11-01 07:20 am (UTC)Drinking the blood-red wine,
O, where can I get a seely skipper
To sail this ship o' mine
See, even then you couldn't get a seely skipper for love or money, and look what that unfortunate omission led to ...but that's wha' ye get if you go a sailing beneath the New Moon with the Old Moon in her arms , I guess.
I guess Sir Patrick just wasn't seely enough.