I was out in my dory one day and I wore

Oiled petticuts strapped to my hip.

I was thinkin’ and smokin’ and fishin’ away,

As quiet as quiet could be,

When all of a whew there was dickens to pay

In the neighborhood handy to me.

With a whoosh like a rocket I shot in the air,

And it seemed like’twas blowin’ a gale;

As I h’isted sky-hootin’ I looked, sor, and there

Was the jolly Jeehookibus Whale.