Have no fear it’s unsinkable

The staggering boson cried

Just get you down below decks

And the gathering storm we’ll ride

So a huddle of terrified passengers

Anxiously searched each other’s eyes

As they stumbled down amidships

Praying the pitching and tossing subside

Full ahead both, rang the order

From the bridge to the engine room

The chief engineer took the signal 

And the ship gathered speed in the gloom

This flagship was the ship of state

Sailing under a new masters rules

But the crew knew it for what it always was

And called it the ship of fools.

The owners of the line had been ousted

By a gang of landlubbing crooks

Who had no care for vessel or sail

Their business was cooking the books

So now the ship was packed to the gunnels

And passengers crowded the floors

But they’d not battened down the hatches

Or closed the watertight doors

The chief mate and ratings were missing

As the bow dug deep in the swell

Coxswain and boson, drunk on deck

Were doomed and washed into hell

On the bridge the deluded captain

Had dismissed the second mate

Insanely jealous of his steering

He’d not have others to navigate

He’d become a vainglorious tyrant

And with no others to take control

The ship runs headlong to the rocks

Where the tempest will reap its toll.