A Cowardly Act by Roll&Go-C


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The Song Challenge: This idea was suggested by our own DaveO, and many thanks to him for it! And for your efforts this time, a special Golden Cow Chip with Sorcha's Gilded Feblueberry Award has been designed. Comin' In On A Hoof And A Prayer -- Early in 1997, the dazed crew of a Japanese Trawler was plucked out of the Sea of Japan clinging to the wreckage of their sunken ship. Their rescue, however, was followed by immediate imprisonment once authorities questioned the sailors on their ship's loss. To a man they claimed that a cow, falling out of a clear blue sky, had struck the trawler amidships, shattering its hull and sinking the vessel within minutes. They remained in prison for several weeks, until the Russian Air Force reluctantly informed Japanese authorities that the crew of one of its cargo planes had apparently stolen a cow wandering at the edge of a Siberian airfield, forced the cow into the plane's hold, and hastily taken off for home. Unprepared for live cargo, the Russian crew was ill-equipped to manage a now rampaging cow within its hold. To save the aircraft and themselves, they shoved the animal out of the cargo hold as they crossed the Sea of Japan at an altitude of 30,000 feet.

A Cowardly Act by Roll&Go-C
(Tune: Traditional Irish - The Son of a Gambolier)

Roll&Go-C's Comments: The "Kasii Maru" was one of the alias of a German Raider in WWII, and may not be the real name of this trawler; but, I'll keep it until someone comes up with something better, and I'm sure they will.

Now you've heard of the Titanic, an iceberg her de-mise;
You've heard of Amelia Earhart, whose plane plunged from the skies;
But have you heard of the Kasii Maru, her fate true tragedy;
When she was sunk by a falling cow while trawling on the sea?

REFRAIN:
While trawling on the sea, me lads, while trawling on the sea,
When she was sunk by a falling cow while trawling on the sea.

This cowardly act took place, 'tis said, in nineteen-ninety-seven,
The Kasii Maru cruised the Sea of Japan, no eye was turned to Heaven;
When suddenly from overhead there came a plaintive "Moo!"
It was udder terror for her crew as that boat was stove in two...

"How could a cow," you might well ask, "fall from the sky above?"
They have no wings to ride the winds, unlike the turtledove;
The truth would surely challenge the most bizarre criteria –
That cow'd been rustled by Russians from her pasture in Siberia...

Them Russians loaded up that cow on a military jet,
They'd not been flying long before bossy became upset;
She began to thrash about and threatened to stampede,
In panic they opened the cargo doors at 30,000 feet...

And so it was that cow dashed out into the skies so blue,
She struck the trawler far below and sore perplexed her crew;
But them fishermen all survived and lived to tell their tale;
They'll soon be milking royalties when their agent makes a sale...