Betty Whale

if given

a bad ride

turn your heart

lamp wide, turn

the lamp oil

high, wear

your sealskin

tight, fight a scary bear and take his hair

spend a night in jail,

then get out and sail

to catch a

pretty

kid a betty whale.

if caught in

a tide, on a shoal, on a

petty snare, don’t shiver in the cold,

put on

your bear hair,

turn your heart

lamp

high, tie

your sealskin

tight fight the

rhyme and hell

and hail and

just

catch a

pretty

kid a betty whale