And Then There's This Boat

And Then There’s This Boat I was at the beach with long lost friends They asked about my who, why, whens And how on earth I carried on And just exactly what went wrong I guess you know I beached her Left her high and dry After all our years together You probably wonder why She was old and leaking Her bottom it would sag And if you got a whiff of her You just might start to gag She listed to the left Then she listed to the right No beauty left to speak of She had become a fright If you didn’t pay attention She would usually shut down No matter what you did for her She wouldn’t make a sound So you see I couldn’t help it I had all that I could take And so you see I beached her And it wasn’t by mistake AND then there’s this boat I found