The Road to the Horizon: Yoh Man! - The Mother Watch Rap

ARC 2006 – Sailing Vessel Persuader Too.
Log entry December 5, 2006 – Transatlantic crossing, day #9.

(The ‘mother watch’ is a 4-daily rotating duty watch of 24 hours. The 'mother watch' crew is responsible for cooking lunch and dinner, and cleaning up the galley, heads and cockpit)

The Mother Watch Rap.
(heavy pumping beat).

Yoh man,
we are the mot-her watch
on Per-su-a-der Too
(Yoh man, watch man!).

We’ve come to sail the oceans
with kite and gul-wing
(Yoh man, sail man!)

None of us cooks at home,
but each of us now cooks at his best
(Yoh man, cook man!)

We take veg-gies, meat,
what-e-ver has to go first
(Yoh man, the chicken man!)

And stand for hours sweating
in the galley.
(Yoh man, galley man!)

Chorus:
Yoh we are the mother watch
on Per-su-a-der Too
Yoh every four days,
we are the mother watch
on Per-su-a-der Too
(Yoh man, watch man!).

Breakfast is an opt-ion
for those that have the e-ner-gy,
trying not to break-them-eggs
before they reach-the-pan
(Yoh man, pan man!)

Lunch is a must,
but light it goes,
cold cuts, toast with roast-ed bacon,
Slight crust, or well done
Mixed left o-vers,
or pancakes come and go.
(Yoh man, go man!)

Chorus:
Yoh we are the mother watch
on Per-su-a-der Too
Yoh every four days,
we are the mother watch
on Per-su-a-der Too
(Yoh man, watch man!).

Dinner is more e-la-bo-ra-te.
For eight crew, the quan-ti-ties
need many pots and pans on the sto-ve,
With the oven on full heat,
warming up the gal-ley
steaming like a saun-a
(Yoh man, sau-man!)

Wraps, stews, un-i-dent-i-fi-able chow,
is our spe-ci-a-li-ty.
Digging stuff from freezer,
fridge and stacks of cans.
Fishing fruits from the swing-ing ham-mock.
Cook-ing, cutt-ing, slap-ping and fry-ing.
While ba-lan-cing on
two feet holding on
while the boat rocks
and the stove swivels.
(Yoh man, swivelman!)

Chorus:
Yoh we are the mother watch
on Per-su-a-der Too
Yoh every four days,
we are the mother watch
on Per-su-a-der Too
(Yoh man, watch man!).

And after serving dinner in the dark,
forget the candle light
in this breeze,
we smile when we hear the kudos:
Thank you, well done,
mother watch.
We smile cause:

Chorus:
Yoh we are the mother watch
on Per-su-a-der Too
Yoh every four days,
we are the mother watch
on Per-su-a-der Too

Yoh man, watch man!
Yoh man, sweat man!
Yoh man, swivel man!
Yoh mother-watch-man!