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The Adventures of Jonas Mauken

from Album- "A Seed Catalog For Extinct Annuals" by the Deadfly Ensemble

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The Adventures of Jonas Mauken, a New England Scot, and the Only Man Who Returned From Fiddler’s Green To Sail Again

1.
I set out to sea 1853… I was chin-deep in rum and tired of drifting. Well, that schooner sank! (And when she hit bottom, I swam from the crow’s nest and trudged back to Boston.) Next time around it was nigh 1860, but the voyage was jinxed, we took tacks that were risky. A storm sent us down, and I bubbled and frowned. It was a long ways away, a long hike back to town.

2.
In 1903 word first got to me that the name Jonas Mauken was rather unlucky. Despite this I sailed (as “Salty” J. Mackie) and sank not but two miles in sight glass of Quincy. Four years elapsed and I went out with Dow on that steel, seven-master, and I spat on the bow. We ran ‘fore a gale that tore out the rigging, and she finally floundered near the Islands of Scilly.

…A whaler from Portsmouth, a trawler from Gloucester… they all met their fate and I slowly slogged homeward…

3.
For decades and decades I been sinking ships, but never a curse hath come from my lips. I’m a good-natured man, and an experienced hand, but disaster comes calling when I set out from land. I spent years on the sea, and many years under, tramping sea floor once my ship’s torn asunder. But I’ll keep trying, yea, though I sink every one, until somehow I’m stopped, by God or by gun.

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from Album- "A Seed Catalog For Extinct Annuals", released January 1, 2008
Music by Alejandro Restrepo
Lyrics by Lucas Lanthier
Piano arrangement and performance by Melankolya

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