Fathoms Below

I'm still hung up on finally getting back to the sea this past weekend. Sand castles, swimming at dusk... avoiding a shark but the bluebottles found me. Oh well, life's too short to not do silly things.

"Fathoms Below" starts one of my favourite movies of all time, The Little Mermaid. While we know that the ocean does indeed have a bottom and there is a limit as to just how many wonderful things we may find, I wonder if there really is a King Triton (or Neptune) or at least something as interesting.

I'll tell you a tale of the bottomless blue
And it's hey to the starboard, heave ho
Look out, lad, a mermaid be waiting for you
In mysterious fathoms below
From whence wayward Westerlies blow
Where Triton is king and his merpeople sing
In mysterious fathoms below

Heave ho
Heave ho

Heave ho
Heave ho
Heave ho
In mysterious fathoms below

I wonder what really lies at the bottom of the ocean, somehow I don't think we'll ever really know.

Under the Sea

Headed off to the beach tomorrow!!! It's been just far too long.

So, today's tune is from "The Little Mermaid", one of my all time favourite movies. It's that crab, Sebastian with, "Under the Sea". Sebastian, he's a crab, is voiced by Samuel E. Wright.

The seaweed is always greener
In somebody else's lake

You dream about going up there
But that is a big mistake

Just look at the world around you
Right here on the ocean floor

Such wonderful things arround you
What more are you looking for

Under the sea, under the sea
Darlin it's better
Down where it's wetter,
Take it from me

Up on the shore they work all day
Out in the sun they slave away

While we devotin
Full time to floatin
Under the sea

Down here all the fish is happy
As off through the waves day roll

The fish on the land ain't happy
They're sad 'cause they in a bowl

But fish in the bowl is lucky
They're in for a worser fate

One day when the boss gets hungry
Guess whos goin on the plate (uh-oh)

Under the sea, under the sea
Nobody beats us
Fry us and eat us in fricasee

We what the land folks love to cook
Under the sea we off the hook

We got no troubles life is the bubbles

Under the sea, under the sea
Since life is sweet here
We got the beat here naturally

Even the strugeon and the ray
They get the urge and start to play

We got the spirit
You got to hear it under the sea

The newt play the flute
The carp play the harp
The plaice play the bass
And they're soundin sharp.
The bass play the brass
The chub play the tub
The fluke is the duke of soul
(yeah)

They ray he can play
He lings on the strings
He trout rockin out
The blackfish she sings
The smelt and the sprat
They know where it's at
And Oh. That blowfish blow

Under the sea (under the sea)
Under the sea (under the sea)

When the sardine
Begin the beguine it's music to me

What do they got, a lot of sand
We got a hot crustacean band

Each little clam here
Know how to jam here under the sea

Each little slug here
Cutin a rug here under the sea

Each little snail here
Know how to wail here
That's why it's hotter under the water
Ya' we in luck here
Down in the muck here under the sea!!

Yay... under the sea. I'll be sure to pack my Little Mermaid towel.