At Socks
Description: In 1845 two of the most modern ships in the British Navy, the Terror and the Erebus, sailed north on a journey to seek the Northwest Passage. They carried a crew of 200 men under the command of Captains Francis Crozier and James Fitzjames, under the overall command of Sir John Franklin. They were last seen by whalers crossing Baffin Bay in good weather, all seeming well. They were never seen again. Recent marine archaeology, combined with the collection of indigenous Inuit oral histories, has pieced together the tragedy which befell these men. The two ships apparently became ice-bound off the coast of King William Island, and the entire crew succumbed to hypothermia, scurvy, lead poisoning, madness and cannibalism.
Description: Traveling in a fried-out combie On a hippie trail, head full of zombie I met a strange lady, she made me nervous She took me in and gave me breakfast And she said Do you come from a land down under? Where women glow and men plunder? Can't you hear, can't you hear the thunder? You better run, you better take cover Buying bread from a man in Brussels He was six-foot-four and full of muscles I said, "do you speak-a my language?" He just smiled and gave me a vegemite sandwich And he said I come from a land down under Where beer does flow and men chunder Can't you hear, can't you hear the thunder? You better run, you better take cover, yeah Lyin' in a den in Bombay With a slack jaw, and not much to say I said to the man, "...
