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They went to sea in a sieve, they did,
In a sieve they went to sea;
Inspite of all their friends would say,
On a winters morn, on a stormy day,
In a sieve they went to sea...

This is posted in polls, to see how may of you can write rhymes!

Yahoo, just don't know what a talented lot you are. I'm impressed.
I think a few of you know this wonderful rhyme.
Thanks for answering...

I adore this rhyme mapeel,
glad you found it!




Thanks for your answers you clever lot...

Answer 1

A floating sieve? this cannot be,
It`s a boat you need to go to sea,
The crew I fear will not be found,
In their useless craft they`ll all be drowned.

Answer 2

The stormy seas sent the sieve say they,
Inspite the winters morn,
to sail the sea in a sieve ,
set sail on a stormy winters day
were the sieve on sea was hid

Answer 3

They hoisted up the sails they did, their sails they hoisted up
The waves were terrible big they were
but they battled on with ne're a care
right I'm stuck now but enjoyed reading the proper version!

THE JUMBLIESI

They went to sea in a Sieve, they did,
In a Sieve they went to sea:
In spite of all there freinds could say,
On a winter's morn, on a stormy day,
In a Sieve they went to sea!
And when the Sieve turned round and round,
And every one cried, 'You'll all be drowned'
They called aloud, 'Our Sieve ain't big,
But we don't care a button! we don't care a fig!
In a Sieve we'll go to sea!'
Far and few, far and few,
Are the lands where the Jumblies live;
Their heads are green, and their hands are blue,
And they went to sea in a Sieve.

II

They sailed away in a Sieve, they did,
In a Sieve they sailed so fast,
With only a beautiful pea-green veil
Tied with a riband by way of a sail,
To a small tobacco-pipe mast;
And every one said, who saw them go,
'O won't they be soon upset, you know!
For the sky is dark, and the voyage is long,
And happen what may, it's extremely wrong
In a Sieve to sail so fast!'
Far and few, far and few,
Are the lands where the Jumblies live;
Their heads are green, and their hands are blue,
And they went to sea in a Sieve.


III

The water it soon came in, it did,
The water it soon came in;
So to keep them dry, they wrapped their feet
In a pinky paper all folded neat,
And they fastened it down with a pin.
And they passed the night in a crockery-jar,
And each of them said, 'How wise we are!
Though the sky be dark, and the voyage be long,
Yet we never can think we were rash or wrong,
While round in our Sieve we spin!
Far and few, far and few,
Are the lands where the Jumblies live;
Their heads are green, and their hands are blue,
And they went to sea in a Sieve.

IV

And all night long they sailed away;
And when the sun went down,
They whistled and warbled a moony song
To the echoing sound of a coppery gong,
In the shade of the mountains brown.
'O Timballo! How happy we are,
When we live in a sieve and a crockery jar,
And all night long in the moonlight pale,
We sail away with a pea-green sail,
In the shade of the mountains brown!'
Far and few, far and few,
Are the lands where the Jumblies live;
Their heads are green, and their hands are blue,
And they went to sea in a Sieve.

V

They sailed to the Western Sea, they did,
To a land all covered with trees,
And they bought an Owl, and a useful Cart,
And a pound of Rice, and a Cranberry Tart,
And a hive of silvery Bees.
And they bought a Pig, and some green Jack-daws,
And a lovely Monkey with lollipop paws,
And forty bottles of Ring-Bo-Ree,
And no end of Stilton Cheese.
Far and few, far and few,
Are the lands where the Jumblies live;
Their heads are green, and their hands are blue,
And they went to sea in a Sieve.

VI

And in twenty years they all came back,
In twenty years or more,
And every one said, 'How tall they,ve grown!
For they've been to the Lakes, and the Torrible Zone,
And the hills of the Chankly Bore;
And they drank their health, and gave them a feast
Of dumplings made with beautiful yeast;
And every one said, 'If we only live,
We too will go to sea in a Sieve, -
To the hills of the Chankly Bore!'
Far and few, far and few,
Are the lands where the Jumblies live;
Their heads are green, and their hands are blue,
And they went to sea in a Sieve.

Answer 4

But then along, along came a shark,
who just for a joke, just for a lark
tipped their sieve into the sea,
Oh what a way, what a way to die
Which goes to show, and reason why
A sieve is no good in the sea!

Answer 5

They went to sea in a sieve, they did
In a sieve they went to sea
In spite of all the holes they, floated all the way
Round the world in 40 days
Came back in the middle of May.

Answer 6

I had a rhyme
I did, I did,
then it went out of my mind,
-it's like a sieve

Answer 7

and in a sieve, it soon became the eve,
the darkness in the night,
the fear before the morning light.
for warned of the storm, before this nigh,
the waves that torn, on that blasted eve of morn.
In a sieve, the went blindlessly.
they did.
,

Answer 8

inspite of all their enemies would say,
on a summer morn, on a sunny day
in a sieve they went to sea...

Answer 9

The sieve, it sprung a leak, it did,
The sieve, it sprung a leak.
They tried to plug it up, they did,
With a bag of frozen peas.

Answer 10

going to sea on a sieve is stupid as can be
on a sieve in the sea, stupid as can be