Tom Chapin / John Forster
In the sagas of under-sea outlaws
And the great soggy deeds that they did
The saltiest thief ever swam down a reef
Was an outlaw named Billy the Squid
From the Grand Bank he'd stolen sand-dollars
And escaped on a sea-horse named Sid
He took from the selfish and gave to the
shell-fish
That great-hearted Billy the Squid In
the Pink Coral Lounge - that's the sand-bar
Of the former Miss Lake Champlain
A beautiful mollusc, a real living dollusc
Her name it was Clammity Jane
And the dive was as hard as a barnacle
It was real barracuda to reign
Where groopers and grunts pulled unsavoury stunts
Which was tough on poor Clammity Jane
One night through the door swam a
stranger
To the corner he squirted and slid
All the fish in the room grew as hush as a tomb
When they saw it was - Billy the Squid
Well he had not come there for a hold-up
Or for personal criminal gain
He said, I've come on a mission, I've come here
a-fishin'
I've come for you, Clammity Jane
He said, Damn it, Clammit, I've hurt
you
I've caused you some pain, this I know
But before it's too late I'm gonna go straight
Or as straight as a squid can go
So he asked for her hand, but she had none
And to prove it she opened her lid
She said, How 'bout a foot? And her foot out she
put
It's a beauty, said Billy the Squid
So he gathered her up in his tentacles
Into the sunset they rid
She said to him, clammily, Let's start a family
Yahoo! said Billy the Squid
So then they moved to the submarine suburbs
And when they found that they could not have kids
She adopted three guppies and four dogfish
puppies
And a whole bunch of clammits and squids
In the sagas of under-sea outlaws
And the great soggy deeds that they did
There's a clam who prevailed where the sheriff
had failed
When she captured bold Billy the Squid
As sung by Iain MacKintosh
Susannes
Folksong-Notizen English Notes 
