Our lucky stars for a lo’d of plank,

Ker-clink, ker-chank,

And still we bounced that old pump crank.

So we woggled on like a bale of hay,

And we set our teeth and we pumped with

groans.

At last we got to Boston bay;

But our arms were stretched to our ankle bones,

Hands were the size of corn-fed hams,

Eyes bulged out like the horns o’ rams,