A Relatively Long Version of "The Captain's Wife's Lament" — Paul and Storm on JoCo Cruise 2023
Channel: Angela Brett
Date: 2023-03-23

“It wasn’t the guitar; it was the guitar’s electronics” is my Charlie Christian cover band? Say hello to the Soggy Bottom Boys! 

This isn’t actually a performance so much as a sound check that we get to watch. It’s also the first instrumental performance from the Sea View Stage on the back deck of the ship, so Paul gives us a rundown of the accessibility features of the venue. Paul and Storm introduces some rules (no glassware in the pool!) for the use of the pool, which due to a mathematical or measurement error, was not covered by a pool cover. 

The theme for the day is Captain Day, so Paul lists some of the captains he can see in the audience: Captain Caveman, various sea captains, various Picards, a Kirk, a Blackbeard, some Cap’n Crunches, Stede Bonnet, Captain Marvel, at least two Captains Kangaroo, but no Captain Fantastic, no Elton John. We are in captain-infested waters. And it is time. For a song. About PIRATES! Captains (arrr!), Swabbies (arrr!), and Yeomen (YO!)

This is not the longest version of The Captain’s Wife’s Lament. It’s just a tribute. 13-minutes into the scheduled timeslot (I trimmed off some from the beginning where nothing was making noise yet), they haven’t even started the song. It’s pi time! Maybe if they just keep talking, they won’t even have to sing the song!

Captain Caveman attempts to sing along, but only knows two words.

Sad Pirates in the Sun is their Jimmy Buffett cover band.
Disagreement as to How That One Finishes is their Grateful Dead cover band.

3:20 mocktail blaze it!

Easy, Nerds is their Weezer cover band.

I threw panties at them at the mention of underwear, to make up for not having thrown panties at them during Opening Band: https://youtu.be/fRUIJQzXDhA Paul throws them back and says not to throw them in the pool, but later in the week I did place some gently into the pool to see how they expanded in water.

Everything I've uploaded from this cruise is at https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJ-l6mr1dW0jjisZGkrSSNQ8HiKRFLxGW
Other performances of The Captain's Wife's Lament that I've recorded are at https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJ-l6mr1dW0jU2gcQGRRH-se33Qo-NSaS