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Lyman and Frederick and Jim, one day, / Set out in a great big ship -- / Steamed to the ocean adown the bay / Out of a New York slip. / "Where are you going and what is your game? " / The people asked those three. / "Darned if we know; but all the same / Happy as larks are we; / And happier still we're going to be! " / Said Lyman / And Frederick / And Jim.
The people laughed "Aha, oho! / Oho, aha! " laughed they; / And while those three went sailing so / Some pirates steered that way. / The pirates they were laughing, too -- / The prospect made them glad; / But by the time the job was through / Each of them pirates, bold and bad, / Had been done out of all he had / By Lyman / And Frederick / And Jim.