Here comes Martha runnin' down the pier
looks like Captain Flint is here
You get the bow and I get the stern

Lord would you look at that Laverne
Old Flint's got shrimp from the deep blue sea
and buckets of fish for you and me


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Old Flint's boat is fine and she's called the Miss-Inclined

and there's no home port painted on her stern
and they say she's like a ghost up and down that Texas coast
but you saw him didn't you Laverne


Daddy says Flint is a weird old bird
and what's more I have heard

that his nets are charmed by a woman who knew
how to work that Louisiana voo-doo
Laverne get away from that boat you hear

your mama don't want you hangin' round here

Chorus


Martha, Martha won't you tell me please
that it's not Laverne that I see

there on the deck of the Miss-Inclined
with Captain Flint I must be blind
Laverne girl what's the matter with you

old Captain Flint put a spell on you

Chorus