Chapter I: A Marine Biologist Lyrics

Doctor, Captain T. O. Vess
R.V. Steadfast bearing West

He's got a bathyscaphe
(Tim was the man with the bathyscaphe)
He's a marine biologist
(Tim was the man there was never any better around)
Slid with the squid underneath the waves

Architeuthis lean and fast
Show us your sublime buccal mass

He's got a bathyscaphe
(Tim was the man with the bathyscaphe)
He's a marine biologist
(Tim was the man there was never any better around)
Slid with the squid underneath the waves

Come along to the mesopelagic
We can frolic where the corals abound
If the cads with the benthic trawlers haven't passed
by the time we get down

Collect the specimens and illustrate 'em -
oh well, as best as you can

Bring 'em up, lay 'em out,
look 'em up, write 'em down,
and you can publish your findings
in a peer-reviewed journal

A keen marine biologist
A mean marine biologist