When we land upon the Moon I’ll show then, how.
Why, I once signed on with Amra, and I damn near lost my skin;
For the blood it flowed like water when the fighting did begin
I’m the only tar who’s e’er jumped ship from Vandervecken’s crew---
And that’s about the strangest thing a man will ever do.”
‘This is about all I can remember of this ditty, for I was already two sheets to the wind when they got started.’ JF
Vandervecken, Protector, Larry Niven
