Name: Once Upon a Sailor
Duration: P00H02M02S
Description: This song is about a sailor who has been out at sea for a long time. He comes back and is trying to find a prostitute. He propositions a lady, who slaps him, because she wasn't a prostitute. She also won't kiss him because he has a mustache, and smells like fish.

Once Upon a Sailor

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This song is about a sailor who has been out at sea for a long time. He comes back and is trying to find a prostitute. He propositions a lady, who slaps him, because she wasn't a prostitute. She also won't kiss him because he has a mustache, and smells like fish.

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Once Upon a Sailor:
In your skivvies with a sailor man, well shiver me timbers
You got me talking faster then I ever have, and hungry for women
[chorus]
Well I've been out at sea, for far too long
I've waited for this night to come
I'll pay you good with a treasure chest
See I know where it's been buried..

We could not kiss said I smelt like fish
And needed to clean my teeth
(and) Shave away my precious mustache
Before our lips would meet

She slapped me when I propositioned her, and said she's a lady
Then she stormed off muttering a something rude about misbehaving

[chorus]

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from Steam Powered Rocket Ship, released October 7, 2006

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Severin Bozung & Evan Sharp - synth & drums - real legit stuff from Utah

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