Last Saturday, Steven's best friend had a "Pirates of the Carribbean" birthday party.  Everyone dressed as a pirate (except for Alex, who made the best parrot costume!) 
My costume featured an oriental sword, varous medals from my JROTC days and a small penguin wearing a bandana who sat on my shoulder.  Naturally, since I can never do these things halfway, I not only had the costume but a routine:
Arr!  I be Karina of the Waves, and I've seen ye eyeballing my wee Penguinito.   There's a story behind him, so sit ye down and listen well.
Twas the summer of '63--and if you don't know what century, you've had too much grog.  It may have been mild and balmy where you were, but on the straights of Magellan, there was a fierce windter storm, the worst I'd ever seen in my life.  Me dear parrot Polly flew overboard--and not the good kind of flying, let me tell you.  His last words were "AWK!  Polly Don't Wanna!"  I never found out what poor Polly didn't wanna do, but I'd guess it was drowning.  And there wasn't much I could do to help him because me timbers were shivering, if ye know what I mean.
The next morning, I found this wee little penguin on the deck of me ship and I thought, 
"Hey, why not go formal?"
Ah, but he's been a good companion--a silent partner of sorts.  We've had many a fine adventure.  You can tell by these medals.  No, I didn't earn them--I stole them of the bonny Brits I've defeated.  Well, these two were from bonny Brits--this one...  Nah, he wasn't so fine.  Fat and ill tempered he was.  Had a lovely ship, though.  Had.
And my sword?  I got this off a Chinaman.  He'd decided to give up the sea and turn to an honest life.  I figured that was just as well, since I'd taken his sword, I'd taken his ship, and I'd taken his catfor.
What's a catfor, ye ask?  The cats for gettig rid of the rats on me ship, ye lilly-livered landlubber!  That's what a catsfor!
(And they walked right into it, too!)
Here's a not-so-old "sea" chanty.  It's a space pirate theme, but you can adapt it.  (I'd rate it PG-13 at least.)  "New Sins for Old" by Leslie Fish.
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