To: vocalist
Subject: Re: Pet/Animal Friend Recital Theme
Date sent: Wed, 19 Jan 2000 10:38:15 PST
Send reply to: VOCALIST <vocalist>

OK, here's another. I finally got my copy of the "Book of Navy Songs" in
order to obtain "The Rhyme of the Chivalrous Shark." It's a delightful old
folk song about a gentlemanly shark who "eats neither woman nor child."
(Tom Chapin sang it in the 1970 documentary "Blue Water, White Death".)

I know that no one would keep a man-eating shark as a pet, but this shark's
rescue of a woman from drowning would certainly make him an "animal friend."
:-) Besides, some nice scientist here on the West Coast has established
that the average shark would much rather enjoy a nice plump seal for lunch.


Elizabeth Finkler
mightymezzo-at-hotmail.com

"An enemy can partially ruin a man, but it takes a well-meaning and
injudicious friend to really finish the job and make it perfect." --Mark
Twain, "Pudd'nhead Wilson"

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