Day 10 Sea Shanty

 Sea shanty first attempt

Not really a shanty, but a slice of apocryphal family history

It should be great great grandad, but that didn't scan..


Great grandad was a sea captain

grew up on the ocean wild

Great grandad was a sea captain

Brought the tea from China


Sing, here is the way

Up sails, up mast

Sing, this is the way

To map the past


Great grandad was a secret son

Set adrift with half a name

Great grandad was a lesser son

And we are all his children 


Sing , this is the way

Up sails, up mast

Sing, this is the way

To drown the past


Great grandad was a go between

Weight of empire in the hold

Great grandad sailed the poppy wars

Didn't know his own when he came home


Sing , this is the way

Up sails, up mast

Sing this is the way

To carry the past


Great grandad kept his manifest

Crates of dreams stacked  in the hold

Great grandad kept his anger there

Deep below the waterline 


Sing, this is the way

Up sails, up mast

Sing this is the way

To hide the past


Great grandad lived in sepia

Great grandad wore his uniform

Great grandad drank on sleepless nights

Great grandad charted profit loss


Sing, this is the way

Up sails, up mast

Sing, this is the way

To know the past

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