The origin of Messing About In Sailboats

  • The original quote is from Kenneth Grahame's Wind In the Willows: "There is nothing - absolutely nothing - half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats."

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August 03, 2007

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John C.

It's rumored that Lyle wrote this after hearing a small child at Christmastime asking a shopping mall Santa..."I want a pony, and a boat, and...."

Michael

I heard this song on the radio last night and thought "Song for Friday!" Then I thought you'd probably already used it, so I checked and here I am.

re "horses on boats what was he thinking" I give you the Doors' "Horse Latitudes":

When the still sea conspires an armor
And her sullen and aborted
Currents breed tiny monsters
True sailing is dead
Awkward instant
And the first animal is jettisoned
Legs furiously pumping
Their stiff green gallop
And heads bob up
Poise
Delicate
Pause
Consent
In mute nostril agony
Carefully refined
And sealed over

*****
That's a real pick-me up.

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