Craig is temporarily a post-doctoral fellow at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute who is looking for a permanent position. He spends most of his time balancing his overwhelming geekdom with normalcy so he can function in the real world. Luckily his wife likes his geekiness.
Peter Etnoyer is a Graduate Research Associate at the Harte Research Institute for Gulf of Mexico Studies, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi. He studies deep corals and ocean fronts, and he loves to be on the water.
Kevin Zelnio is a Graduate Student Researcher at Penn State studying the ecology of hydrothermal vent and methane seep communities. He raises awareness of the plight of the spineless through folk music.
I wrote this Sunday evening playing my baritone ukelele. I overlayed the guitar and a small banjo solo (with effects). Its fun to overlay instruments in separate tracks and play around with them. I don't very often because it is time-consuming.
I am happy to take requests, suggestions for parodies (I'm working on Every Whale Has A Bone set to Every Rose Has A Thorn...), or put life into your own lyrics. Just send me an email!
Chorus:
(I Sing tonight and I'll sing it out loud
For those depths will not let me go
A song for the dark, no echo and how
Do I stop from sinking below)
Kissed my daughter, I kissed my son
Kissed my wife, and I held everyone
Stepped on the plank, stepped down the stairs
Dropped off my bag, for my shift I prepared
The sun on my back, started rigging the mast
raising the main, we caught a light draft
off the shelf in 2 hours flat
we were making good time, we were all laid back
Chorus
Out of the blue, a storm it appeared
Grey went the sky, the sea she reared
Like a bucking horse with a burr in its saddle
She tossed us around and we put up a battle
Wild mare of the sea, a swell so big and mean
Knocked the oiler back into the beam
I tried to reach out as he melted away
And he slipped under I was already too late
Chorus
As I held tight with my foot in the rigging
I caught a glimpse of this mustang a-swimming
It stared me wild-eyed, crazed and unforgiving
I dropped my jaw in fear as it hit me
Nothing did i hear, nor see or feel
When that wave crashed over and knocked me to the keel
I lay white-faced, unable to speak
The seas she dragged me down by my feet
Chorus
Kissed my daughter, I kissed my son
Kissed my wife, and I held everyone
I held their memory close to my heart
And I silently sank, my death it did start
I tried to break free, I committed no crime
Was only a minute, a flash in time
My lungs they heaved, my sight it dimmed
Flashing lights danced around me, I sang this hymn
Chorus
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Comments
nice. but a bit too depressing/tragic...where's the pirates and swashbuckling?
Posted by: Jim Lemire | July 22, 2008 8:04 PM
I guess I'm a tragic musician?
I'll bring you pirates and swashbuckling! Stay Tuned.
Posted by: kevin z | July 23, 2008 5:26 AM
I had no idea that baritone ukeleles existed! Excellent song. Re: parodies - have you seen jebyrnes' Invertebrate Song Page?
Posted by: Miriam | July 27, 2008 1:23 PM