Ship outta luck           Alex Reyes          

  DGA

Shorty and Slim at the Gamboa boat ramp at noon

Packed up for a day of fishing on lake Gatun

Outta luck that was de name of dem boat

No man It didn’t go fast they just a lucky that the ting still float

Well de day was dark and de cloud it was a treatening

Well they got a lot of bite but dey just couldn’t bring dem in

Dey decided to head back wit only two small bass

In the middle of the channel out of luck ran out of gas

Bm                                  G                             D

Slim look around and scream as him eyes pop out                          A

Rass man! Two ships in the channel one going North the next one south

 

Slim kneel and pray dat him sufferation be brief

            F                               C                  E

While Shorty paddle like a Cuna Indian Chief

 

And they said

A                            G             D            A

We’s a ship out a luck don’t tell me

Ship    outta       luck

We’s a ship outta luck how can this be

Ship    outta     luck

We’s a ship outta luck its just destiny

A                        G              A              D

But doesn’t it suck we’s a ship outta luck

 

Slim shake his head and   his   from his eyes

While shorty counted stars waiting for his chichon to rise

The boat it sink but dey survive disintegration

Now they wait on an unknown shore in desperation

They yell for help to any boat coming near

But dey pass dem by cuz dey engine too loud to hear

It was getting dark so a fire was an obvious plan

But de rain finally came and it wet up all de land

 

De rain stop now but de chance for de fire was gone

And Mosquitos feast on dem rass like fillet mignon

Shorty and Slim thank de lord that dey still alive

but in da tree above dem head Rass! an angry killer bee hive

And dey said

We’s a ship out a luck don’t tell me

Ship outta luck

We’s a ship outta luck how can this be

Ship outta luck

We’s a ship outta luck its just destiny

But doesn’t it suck we’s a ship outta luck

 

Well de next morning dey wake up with m-sixteen between dem eyes

Guardia bosque charge dem with poaching on BCI

Shorty and Slim tried to explain but to no avail

Dey was on a boat directly for Gamboa jail

Guardia Bosque got a radio call at buoy ninety-nine

Two men in dem handcuffs had been identified

Two vexed wives had made a missing person report

Dey said that one was real tall and the odda one was really short

Dey laugh at each odda cuz dem finally have good luck

But dey choke when dey saw dem wives standing on de dock

One looked like a tiger and de odda like asteaming train

Shorty and Slim wish dey was back on de island again

We’s a ship out a luck don’t tell me

Ship outta luck

We’s a ship outta luck how can this be

Ship outta luck

We’s a ship outta luck its just destiny

Ship outta luck

We’s a ship outta luck don’t tell me

Ship outta luck