buoy [boy] ~ [BOO-ee]

[Joel S. Berson]

Who's singing and can you give us an audio URL?

Joel

At 3/24/2014 01:51 PM, Dan Goodman wrote:
>...
>My father was the keeper of the Eddystone Light.
>He slept with a mermaid one fine night.
>Out of this union there came three;
>A porgy, a porpoise, and the other was me.
>
>One day as I was trimming the glim,
>Singing a snatch of the evening's hymn;
>I heard a voice shouting "Ahoy!"
>And there was my mother, sitting on a boy.
>
>Spoken:  That is, a buoy what's for ships that sail;
>And not a boy what's a juvenile male.
>
>--
>Dan Goodman

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