Diane Hine - The Good Ship Benevolent lyrics

Fomenting a fervor and stirring the bones Ensnaring the sirens with songs from his lips In voice of contralto or ba** baritone The dashing corsair in splendiferous ship. A weathered and feathered, half woman half bird Chimera admired his masterly spark And breadth of his vision the first time she heard The quick-witted salt in his broad-bottomed barque. So lashing her limbs to the limb of a tree To steady herself from the force of his throat She listened with mixture of shock, awe and glee To talented tar in his seaworthy boat. Then plucking a shellfish she flew to a tor And wielding a talon, proceeded to shuck it One beady red eye on his exploits galore The bold buccaneer in his barnacled bucket.