Nautical Life

From Ivar Haglund.

Ivar was a colorful figure from the Pacific Northwest who may have collected or written this song. Some of his songs may be found in An Ivar Book of Ballads from Puget Sound by Ivar Haglund and George Frederick McKay

• Chorus:
  With a barnacle under the binnacle
  And a bottle of pop on the poop
  And the odor of salmon prevails in the cabin
  We sail on our sloppy old sloop.

1. We’ve got loads of coffee in the galley
   By golly a big coffee urn
   Three times daily the dishes are cleaned by the fishes
   That swim from the stem to the stern.
2. Our skipper is sturdy and stocky
   Encrusted with the salt of the sea
   He causes a rumpus by kicking the compass
   And yodeling Mother Machree.
3. So it’s over the querulous currents
   We’ll go wherever we’re blown
   And in spite of the motion we’ll conquer the ocean
   In this sloppy little sloop of our own.