A Pirate's Tale

"A Pirate's Tale" is an original song from "The Whale Episode" of Sid the Science Kid.

Susie sings the song from the point a view of a pirate captain who tries to measure a whale using non-standard measurement, such as using the height of two crew members, the width of the sails and length of his ship.

Lyrics
Susie: ''Gather round matie's and listen to me. Come and hear my pirates tale about our advnture out on the sea. ''

''We went to measure a whale, we had no Yard sticks and no rulers, amoung our good ships treasure. ''

But by using the things we had onboard, we found a way to measure!

''By using things we had on board we found a way to measure. ''

''You see, we had twin cooks, two tiny blokes, their names were Joe and Jim! If you stood them together, well, they were as tall as our Captain Panama Slim'l ''

''And we had three sails to catch the wind, to help us on our trip. And the three of those sails side by side equaled the size of the ship!''

The three of those sails, side by side, equaled the size of the ship.

''One day we spied that whale of a whale, and sailed along beside her. We pulled up very close to her and I thought it would be fun to ride her.''

How big was she oh she was big!

''I'm telling you no tale, we saw that our ship was exactly the size of that whale of a whale. ''

Oh we found a valuable treasure, and back home that treasure went!

''The treasure we found was to use non-standard measurement. ''

''The treasure we found was to use non-standard measurement! ''