Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!floyd!vax135!ariel!hou5f!hou5a!hou5d!hou5e!mat From: mat@hou5e.UUCP Newsgroups: net.singles Subject: Re: How mine met... Message-ID: <568@hou5e.UUCP> Date: Mon, 20-Jun-83 12:30:25 EDT Article-I.D.: hou5e.568 Posted: Mon Jun 20 12:30:25 1983 Date-Received: Tue, 21-Jun-83 14:31:15 EDT References: rlgvax.669 Lines: 46 *porgy (po^ge~) n., pl. -gies, -gy: see PLURAL, II, D, 1 [prob altered < Sp. or Port. pargo < L. pagrus < Gr. phagros, sea bream] 1. any of a number of related saltwater food fishes (family Sparidae) having spiny fins and a wide body covered with large scales, as the scup, the pinfish, and the sheepshead (sense 1) 2. any of various other fishes, as the menhaden I seem to remember that this was the beginning of a song sung by the Weavers (y'know, Lee Hays, often wth Pete Seeger) near the end of a record called ``Travellin' on with The Weavers''. I am sure that this is not the original reference. I believe that the whole song as they sung it is My father was the keeper of the Eddystone Light. He courted a mermaid on fine night. >From this union there came three: A porpoise, a porgy, and the other was me. [chorus] Yo-ho-ho, the winds are free! Oh for the life on a rolling sea! One night as a was singin' up a ~~~~~~ Singing a verse from the evenin' hymn, A voice from the starboard shouted ``Ahoy'' And there was me mother, a'sittin' on a bouy -Don't be ridiculous, a boy is a juvenile male. -No, a buuueee! It guides the ships to sail. -Oh. ``Tell me, what has become of my children three?'' My mother then, she asked of me. One was exhibited as a talking fish, The other was served on a chafing dish. Then the phosphorous flashed in her seawead hair. When I looked again, me mother wasn't there. A voice came a'echoing out of the night: ``TO THE DEVIL WITH THE KEEPER OF THE EDDYSTONE LIGHT!'' [repeat chorus] Mark Terribile Duke of deNet