Mexican Shower

[Mark A Mandel]

On Tue, 19 Nov 2002, James A. Landau wrote:

#          "The cook was Dutch
#           And behaved as such
#                For all he fed the crew
#           Was a couple of tons
#           Of hot cross buns
#                All mixed with sugar and glue"

I know it as "A Capital Ship". Ah: The Digital Tradition lyric database
at the Mudcat Cafe,
        http://www.mudcat.org/@displaysong.cfm?SongID=11
 has it attributed to Charles Edward Carryl.

The version there is the one I know, give or take a couple of typos
(cheerily/cherrily) and variations in nonsense words.

-- Mark A. Mandel, The Filker With No Nickname
     http://world.std.com/~mam/filk.html