THE GREAT EXPLORER
He sailed o’er the weltery watery milesFor a tabular year-and-a-day,To the kindless, kinkable Cannibal IslesHe sailed and he sailed away!He captured a loon in a wild lagoon,And a yak that weeps and smiles,And a bustard-bird, and a blue baboon,In the kindless Cannibal IslesAnd wildsOf the kinkable Cannibal Isles.He swiped in bats with his butterfly-net,In the kinkable Cannibal Isles,And got short-waisted and over-hetIn the haunts of the crocodiles;And nine or ten little Pygmy MenOf the quaintest shapes and stylesHe shipped back home to his old Aunt Jenn,From the kindless Cannibal IslesAnd wildsOf the kinkable Cannibal Isles.
He sailed o’er the weltery watery milesFor a tabular year-and-a-day,To the kindless, kinkable Cannibal IslesHe sailed and he sailed away!He captured a loon in a wild lagoon,And a yak that weeps and smiles,And a bustard-bird, and a blue baboon,In the kindless Cannibal IslesAnd wildsOf the kinkable Cannibal Isles.He swiped in bats with his butterfly-net,In the kinkable Cannibal Isles,And got short-waisted and over-hetIn the haunts of the crocodiles;And nine or ten little Pygmy MenOf the quaintest shapes and stylesHe shipped back home to his old Aunt Jenn,From the kindless Cannibal IslesAnd wildsOf the kinkable Cannibal Isles.
He sailed o’er the weltery watery milesFor a tabular year-and-a-day,To the kindless, kinkable Cannibal IslesHe sailed and he sailed away!He captured a loon in a wild lagoon,And a yak that weeps and smiles,And a bustard-bird, and a blue baboon,In the kindless Cannibal IslesAnd wildsOf the kinkable Cannibal Isles.
He sailed o’er the weltery watery miles
For a tabular year-and-a-day,
To the kindless, kinkable Cannibal Isles
He sailed and he sailed away!
He captured a loon in a wild lagoon,
And a yak that weeps and smiles,
And a bustard-bird, and a blue baboon,
In the kindless Cannibal Isles
And wilds
Of the kinkable Cannibal Isles.
He swiped in bats with his butterfly-net,In the kinkable Cannibal Isles,And got short-waisted and over-hetIn the haunts of the crocodiles;And nine or ten little Pygmy MenOf the quaintest shapes and stylesHe shipped back home to his old Aunt Jenn,From the kindless Cannibal IslesAnd wildsOf the kinkable Cannibal Isles.
He swiped in bats with his butterfly-net,
In the kinkable Cannibal Isles,
And got short-waisted and over-het
In the haunts of the crocodiles;
And nine or ten little Pygmy Men
Of the quaintest shapes and styles
He shipped back home to his old Aunt Jenn,
From the kindless Cannibal Isles
And wilds
Of the kinkable Cannibal Isles.