Letras de Rescue Mission

The captain touched his swagger stick up to his golden eye
And boogied through the vestibule while bidding us goodbye
The enemy surrounds us and our spirit′s almost gone
The devil take the cavalry that sold us for a song
There's chi-chi′s on the starboard, lads, and chi-chi's in the stern
And hashish in the hookah pipes and bonny grass to burn
Our mission is a secret we're fool enough to try
And we′ll sail the bloody ocean, boys, or drink the bastard dry
"If I′d been a carpenter," the swarthy sergeant said
"I'd never seen this ugly thing that hangs above my head
To hell with all your heroes and the wounds they hope to show
I′m just a simple soldier, son, with one more year to go."
The albatross was tiring and the cook was in a stew
The filthy little cabin boy was whizzing in my shoe
The captain's wife was agin′ and the first mate heard her scream
When Tommy slipped tabasco in the captain's Vaseline
"Our time will soon be gone," he said, "it′s all we've left to lose
We've shot our ammunition and we′re all but out of booze
So here′s to Irma Donegal, here's to Nellie Bly
And here′s to my old friend," he said, and kissed his ass goodbye
"Give off, give off, you sorry lot, give off," the captain cried
"We've lost our bloody anchor and we′re driftin' with the tide
The swollen surf is pounding like a thousand cannons roar
And I shake the hand of any man who guides us into shore."
"We′re saved, we're saved," the soldiers
Said, "We're saved," the sailors cried
And soldiers climbed aboard while sailors leapt from either side
Some swabbies hit the minefield and the rifles got the rest
And somewhere there′s a schooner sinkin′ slowly in the west