So Helen launched a thousand ships
And everyones impressed with that:
But I say, Well, look what she had to work with.
Suppose shed been stuck in Colorado
With not an ocean to speak of.
Just a rubber duck flotilla
Launched on Monument Creek
To raise money for charity.
You see them there you know,
Each Spring the beautiful Helens
With a thousand wanton flowers in their eyes
Standing on the banks of the Monument,
Looking out across the creek
At all those rubber ducks:
Thinking of ships, perhaps,
And puzzled.
And everyones impressed with that:
But I say, Well, look what she had to work with.
Suppose shed been stuck in Colorado
With not an ocean to speak of.
Just a rubber duck flotilla
Launched on Monument Creek
To raise money for charity.
You see them there you know,
Each Spring the beautiful Helens
With a thousand wanton flowers in their eyes
Standing on the banks of the Monument,
Looking out across the creek
At all those rubber ducks:
Thinking of ships, perhaps,
And puzzled.