Third cool thing of the day

[annathepiper]

Reading Post Captain, the second of Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey & Maturin books, and on page 213 I find the sailors singing the song from which Great Big Sea's "Rant and Roar" is descended!

We'll rant and we'll roar like true British sailors
We'll range and we'll roam over all the salt seas,
Until we strike soundings in the Channel of old England:
From Ushant to Scilly 'tis thirty-five leagues.

We hove our ship to when the wind was south-west, boys,
We hove our ship to for to strike soundings clear,
Then we filled our main-topsail and bore right away, boys,
And right up the Channel our course we did steer.

Clearly I'm going to be having GBS ditties rolling through my head the whole time I'm watching Far Side of the World, when it comes out. ;)