- By Paul Sherwood AKA Chunks
Save The Children
We are in mourning here onboard kids. Last night during a peel we
lost a trusty member of our team, I am so distraught by my personal
loss I have written a few lines about the whole affair.
Here goes....
This is an ode to my faithful right shoe
Yesterday you made me feel so blue
And I don't know quite what to do.
After 20,000 miles together, me and you
With a bond of friendship that was so true
and a love for your comfort which just endlessly grew,
with your strength and grip upon which I drew.
Then that moment - when the wind blew
when I was carrying out acts of derring-do.
Whilst clipping the sheet to the starboard clew
you fell off my foot and suddenly flew
to the onlooking horror of my fellow crew,
then my right sock got completely wet through.
Thoughts of you drowning made me stew -
if only I'd stuck you to my foot with glue.
Now there's only one thing that's due
For now there is one where there once was two
Another shoe in Cape Town but one that's brand new
So to Pittards I say 'Avez-Vous
Another size seven Churches right shoe ?'
Paul Sherwood AKA Chunks
Save The Children