Jimmy is a good cook

'You are a great Cook Jimmy”

Said Mrs Capt Cook in awe

Speaking to the great navigator, her husband,

Who she very seldom saw.

'Where are you off to this time Jimmy?

To what strange foreign shores.

I know you are going somewhere

I saw you pack your naval drawers

'Tell me where you're going Jimmy

In that tiny boat of yours

That has no outboard motor

and no wooden rowing oars”

Capt Cook RN drew himself up

his chest and muscles flexed.

And then explained to Mrs Cook

where his ship was going next.

'I will go looking for New Zealand

across the many countless miles.

Then I'm heading north to Hawaii

To find the Sandwich Isles '

'Don't go to those Islands Jimmy!

You'll meet trouble at that spot.

The locals are quite unfriendly

and will drop you in a cooking pot”

But Capt Cook paid no heed

paid no attention to his loving wife

He went to the Sandwich Islands

and paid there with his life

To honour Cook they wrote a book

about the great navigator's life.

They called it 'Jimmy's Cookbook”

It was autographed by his wife.

But the highest honour bestowed

on the Great Navigator at his death

was the sound of bells and whistles

when they made him Master Chef!”

B Conroy, Otumoetai

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