The Submarine Boat 1902 'Foxy Grandpa'

James Pitt-Payne, London UK - 28 Feb 2004

[Boys:] Tell us the story,
if you please,
you started on the boat.
[Grandpa:] About the ocean blue, my boys,
about the ocean blue?
[Boys:] Not about the ocean,
but the first submarine boat!
[Grandpa:] About the first submarine boat,
boys? I'll tell you:
It dives beneath the water
and is quickly out of sight.
While under there,
the captain is always looking for fight.
There's nothing new about these boats,
the first was years ago;
Jonah was the Captain
and the whale the boat, you know.

[Chorus:] Jonah was the Captain
of the submarine boat, "Whale!"
He could whip 'most anything
that came across his trail;
He was known in history,
as the terror of the sea!
Captain Jonah and his submarine boat,
"Whale!"

Jonah was the Captain
of the submarine boat, "Whale!"
He could whip 'most anything
that came across his trail;
He was known in history,
as the terror of the sea!
Captain Jonah and his submarine boat,
"Whale!"

[Boys:] Inside that whale
it must have been
as dark as dark could be!
[Grandpa:] Indeed it was quite black,
my boys, indeed it was quite black!
[Boys:] Then where did Jonah get a light?
Or how could Jonah see?
[Grandpa:] Inside the whale
there is a sack of oil, a sack;
so Jonah took his sou'wester
and scooped a hat full quick!
He then cut his chinwhiskers off
and used them for a wick
and why he left that boat is told
by wise men of renown,
that Jonah was a working man
and wouldn't be kept down.

[Chorus:] Jonah was the Captain
of the submarine boat, "Whale!"
He could whip 'most anything
that came across his trail;
He was known in history,
as the terror of the sea!
Captain Jonah and his submarine boat,
"Whale!"

Jonah was the Captain
of the submarine boat, "Whale!"
He could whip 'most anything
that came across his trail;
He was known in history,
as the terror of the sea!
Captain Jonah and his submarine boat,
"Whale!"

Soft karaoke
Words
piano 1
piano 2
piano 3
piano 4
lyric
pizz str bass
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The Submarine Boat 1902
Lyrics by Elville Barker
Music by Joseph Hart
© 1902 by Hearst's Chicago American
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sequence and karaoke by James Pitt-Payne, London UK
on Saturday 28 February 2004 at 15.36
in association with Doug Grierson
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The first song I have come across about submarines,
a uniquely American Invention of the 19th Century.
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