05-09-2009, 01:40 AM
Mark Stapleton Wrote:Ed Jewett Wrote:But the band plays on while the captain adds ice to his drink, and some are storing 'four hundred n' ninety-seven n' a half feet o' rope'.
http://www.free-lyrics.org/Jamie-Brocket...tanic.html
Did big Jack really try to board the Titanic on its maiden voyage?
I don't know. I doubt it. The song (perhaps you have to have heard it, rather than just reading the lyrics) is a very tongue-in-cheek, satirical, 60's "talking blues" piece for those who smoke rope, so I doubt there is any effort to stick to proven historical facts.
"Where is the intersection between the world's deep hunger and your deep gladness?"