Shiver My Timbers

I love the Muppets. There really isn't any other show that comes close to being a match for the original Muppet Show, with it's mix of guest stars, songs, sketchs and backstage zany antics. Some of the movies are good too, others... not so much. The original Muppet Movie is fantastic, but I'll cover that another day with a song from it. This song is from the very start of Muppet Treasure Island, which isn't the best of the films by any means, but it has some bloody good laughs in the running time (such as the High Priest of a tribe of wild pigs, being named Spa'am; a name that landed the Jim Henson Company in court with the makers of the canned meat product, who alleged that the character was depicted as - and I quote - "evil in porcine form").

Children's entertainment these days simply lacks the heart and soul of shows like the Muppets. It is too politically correct and sanitised, and I feel that is a great shame. The Muppets always used to be on the BBC at around teatime on a Sunday when I was growing up, and it was a show we could watch as a family (well apart from Dad as he was usually off somewhere selling something or other, though he did seem to enjoy it on the few occasions he was home to see it). I need to save up some money and buy the season box sets of this show on DVD.

Shiver My Timbers by The Muppets

Shiver my timbers, shiver my soul
Yo ho he ho
There are men whose hearts are as black as coal
Yo ho he ho

And they sailed their ship across the ocean blue
A bloodthirsty captain and a cutthroat crew.
It's as dark a tale as was ever told
Of the lust for treasure and a love of gold...

Shiver my timbers, shiver my sides
Yo ho he ho
There are hungers as strong as the winds and tides
Yo ho he ho

And those bucaneers drowned their sins in rum,
The devil himself would have to call them scum!
Every man on board would have killed his mate for a bag of ginnys
Or a piece of eight, a piece of eight, a piece of eight
5 6 7 8

HULA WOKA HULA WOKA SOMETHING NOT RIGHT
MANY WICKY ICKY THINGS GONNA HAPPEN TONIGHT
HULA WOKA HULA WOKA SAILOR MAN BEWARE

When the money's in the ground, there's murder in the air,
Murder in the air.

ONE MORE TIME NOW

Shiver my timbers, shiver my bones
Yo ho he ho
There are secrets that sleep with old Davey Jones
Yo ho he ho

When the main sails set and the anchor's weighed
There's no turning back from any course that's laid

And when greed and felony sail the sea,
You can bet your boots there'll be treachery AH HA HA HA

YAAAAAA YA YA YA AAAAAAAA YAAAAAAA

Shiver my timbers, shiver my sails
Dead men tell no tales!