A Stormy Voyage Old Jack's Boat

Hah! Oh!

Good day to you.

# This is the place to be

# For Salty Dog and me

# Down by the harbour

# We'll be there. Round every corner, there's something to share

# Give us a cheer Our friends are here

# Just Salty Dog and me. #

Ha-ha! Come on, Salty!

# This is the place to meet

# Down at the end of the street

# Seagulls flying up in the blue

# There's always a cup of tea waiting for you

# Out in the sun, heavens above Just Salty Dog and me

# Haul away, haul away Sing the song of the sea

# Hoist the sail, I'll tell you a tale of Salty Dog and me

# This is the place to go

# And these are the people we know

# The village is busy with things to see

# And there's the Rainbow down by the quay

# There's stories to tell, join us as well, just Salty Dog and me. #

MOBILE PHONE RINGS

There we go, Salty.

-Oh, don't sit there.

-What? Haha!

My ray of sunshine, what's the matter?

-Sorry, this chair is broken. I was waiting for Sam to fix it.

-Oh, I see.

-Have this chair.

-I could have came a cropper there, couldn't I, Salty?

-How's my favourite fisherman?

-All the better for seeing you, my dear.

This calls for my reading glasses, doesn't it?

Hello to you too, Salty, my lovely!

She's always pleased to see you.

Doesn't do that for everybody.

You're both my special friends.

-So what can I get for you today?

-I know. A cake. A lemon twinkle cake.

-The one with the sugary stars. My favourites!

-Ooh, Jack.

I've run out of lemon twinkles. I'm sorry.

-Never mind. I'll have a cup of tea.

-I'll fetch it straightaway.

-With perhaps a little dog biscuit on the side?

-Wooh! Wooh! Wooh!

-Jack!

-Hello.

-Hello, Salty.

Are you stopping?

-Well, I was looking for you.

-Why, what's the matter?

-Here.

That's a light bulb.

For your ship's lamp. It wasn't working yesterday.

Yes. The bulb's blown.

We can't have you setting off without your lamp.

Thank you. I'll fit it, as soon as I've had my tea.

-Always glad to help. Now, if you need me to...

-Oh, Ernie!

-That chair is broken.

-So I see.

-Perhaps I'll pop it over to Sam.

-You'll need that bit as well.

-Aye. Cheerio, Jack.

-Yes.

-Ooh!

There you go. A nice cup of tea,

one sugar, just the way you like it,

-and a dog biscuit on the side.

-Thank you.

And Salty says thank you as well. Don't you? Here you are.

Oh, I found some lemon twinkles. Pop by later and I'll have a cake.

You are always looking out for me, Shelly.

I'll drink this, and then I'll be off to the Rainbow. Thank you.

There she is, the Rainbow. What have you got for us today, my dear?

Heh-hey! Come along, Salty.

HE HUMS

Good girl. In your bed. Good girl. Go on, Salty.

Now, then, let's see if I can fit

this fiddly little lamp bulb in here.

I'm going to need my reading glasses for this. Now, where did I put them?

Eh? Have you seen them, Salty?

I'm going to have to look after my glasses better than this.

Do you remember when we got this lamp?

It was after that really stormy voyage we had.

Let me think... Yeah.

Once upon a twinkly time,

the Rainbow set out from Staithes,

waved goodbye to Whitby, and disappeared over the horizon.

It was a bit of an overcast sort of a day,

and as we sailed along, we sang.

# Just Salty dog and me

# Sailing away on the sea

# We're going to have a lovely day

# Even though the sky is grey

# We'll sing and we'll smile for a nautical mile

# Just Salty dog and me. #

Yeah, well, we'd sailed happily for many hours, until the wind

suddenly turned, and we ran into a storm to shake you to your cockles.

Salty here has never been one for thunderstorms, have you?

No, no - doesn't like 'em.

And this storm was not one for the fainthearted.

The skies darkened, the wind was northerly, blowing fit to bust,

whipping the waves into tall towers as big as a man.

As big as a bus! Waves that were as big as a house!

And poor Rainbow...

didn't know what had hit her.

One moment, perching high on the crest,

and then plummeting down like a rollercoaster.

Up and down, we hurtled, crashing through the foam.

Of course, Salty wanted us to head back to harbour.

In fact, she hates storms so much,

she suggested selling the Rainbow,

and using the money to buy a dog biscuit factory.

But just as poor Salty was thinking that she'd never see land again,

through the raging waves, we heard the most beautiful sound.

WOMAN SINGS

Clear and gentle, it just cut through the storm.

Yes, it was the song of our mermaid friend, Pearl,

perched at the very tip of a wave. "Yoo-hoo!" called the mermaid.

And with a flip of her fabulous tail, Pearl dived through

the tower of water and popped up in front of the Rainbow.

Just like that. "Don't worry, Jack," she called, "I'll get you home!

"I have the perfect solution."

From deep in the ocean, Pearl summoned her friend, Angela,

the angler fish. She was beautifully spoken and really quite shy.

"Me," she gasped, "you want me to help? How thrilling!

"Nobody's ever asked me to help before, ever."

Which is quite surprising, really, as angler fish

have a built-in head lantern, which must come in very useful

in the dark depths of the sea.

Pearl asked Angela if we might use

her lantern to light our way across

the ocean, and the kind angler fish was only too happy to oblige.

So, with Angela and her lantern swimming ahead of the Rainbow

with Pearl, they were able to lead us through the dark waves.

We were sailing along quite well now, considering the storm,

when all at once, there was the most almighty crack of lightning.

Pearl and Angela dived below,

while Salty and I, we were thrown off our feet.

We lay quivering on the deck, didn't we, girl?

Then we heard a creak...

and a groan...

and a crash!

And when we looked up,

the Rainbow's mast had broken in two,

and on top of that, the lightning had bust our boiler.

Now the engine was no good at all. How were we going to sail home?

I looked for Pearl, but she was lost in the salty spray.

We were alone, stuck in the middle of a raging ocean,

with a broken mast and a busted engine.

And if that wasn't enough, the Rainbow gave a sudden lurch,

as if we'd hit land, but there was no land to be seen.

I rushed over to look over the side, and blow my britches,

the boat gave another lurch.

And then slowly, slowly, we began to rise, upwards and upwards,

until the Rainbow was high above the waves.

What was going on?

Then we heard Pearl's voice,

calling us from down below in the sea.

"Hold on tight, Jack and Salty! You are going for a ride."

A ride?

"Welcome aboard," announced a big, rumbly voice.

Our friend...

Bluey, the blue whale, had come to our rescue, again. Ha!

Bluey swam up beneath the Rainbow and lifted us

high into the air on his back.

We were hitching a ride on the back of a whale!

Just imagine the procession

that crossed the stormy ocean that day.

By teatime, we were reaching land.

You can imagine how pleased Salty was to see Staithes in the distance.

Bluey the whale - he began to slow down as we drew near.

He explained that he couldn't go any closer to the land,

or he would get stuck on the sandbanks.

Now, it was time for one final surprise.

"Hold onto your hats," chuckled the whale.

As Salty was trying to explain that she doesn't wear a hat,

Bluey took in a massive suck of water,

and then he spurted a huge fountain out of his blowhole.

And the Rainbow, with us in it,

flew high into the air on the spout of water,

so high that we took off, we turned a somersault,

and came neatly to land

just beside the harbour wall.

And as he set out to sea,

Bluey let out another fountain of water, by way of goodbye.

Ho-ho! Bye-bye!

And as we squinted into the sunset,

we just caught a flash of Angela's lantern,

and a glimpse of Pearl's tail, as they disappeared

into the wide ocean.

Salty and I heaved a huge sigh of relief.

We were home again.

TOOT!

You like that story, Salty? All true, of course.

Mind you, my stories always are. Ha-ha!

Oh, look!

Come on.

You know, Salty, we never did find

those reading glasses, did we?

-You haven't eaten them, have you? Ha-ha!

-Ah, back again, Jack?

Hey, you can have the honour of testing out the fixed chair.

You quite sure it's not going to break again?

Huh...

Oh, very good, yeah. Well done, Ernie.

Only glad to help. Hey, did you get your ship's lamp fixed?

-No. I seem to have mislaid my glasses.

-Oh, well.

-I'll keep my eye out for them. See you later, Jack.

-Bye for now.

Go and sit. Sit down. Go on.

-Ah!

-One lemon twinkle cake,

-with extra stars, for my favourite customer.

-Oh, Shelly Periwinkle!

-You are the light of my life.

-SALTY WHINES

Yes, and you, of course. Sit down.

What more can a man ask for than a kind friend, a faithful dog,

and a lemon twinkle cake?

-Yeah. Except perhaps...

-Your glasses?

-My glasses!

-You left them here earlier.

-Oh, Shelly!

I mean, what would I do without you, eh?

D'you know, it's almost as if you were magic.

Oh! Oh, Jack!

You and your imagination! JACK LAUGHS

Look at that little cakey.

Beautiful. Ha-ha!

Well, Salty, that's it for today.

We'll see all our friends again next time.

Oh! And we'll see YOU next time, as well. Bye-bye.

Come on, girl.

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