Say, that "TITANIC" is in a "SHOCKING STATE" these days! Let SAILOR sing...

Talk about a SILLY headline...here's THE GUARDIAN complaining about how "shocking" it is to find The Titanic looking like a WRECK.

Yes, this is from a BRITISH newspaper website.  They're shocked, SHOCKED, that after 100 years in salt water, the WRECKED TITANIC doesn't look so good!

I love the Brits, but they do have a tendency to wear the bowler hat just a little too tight while they sip the sherry:

"Such a kerfuffle. Why can't something be done? Imagine, a wrecked ship is deteriorating! Surely, something can be done about it. Where's Christopher Chope? Oh, taking upskirt photos. Jolly good luck to him, then. Where's Prince Harry and the Duchess of Sex? Off spending taxpayer money? We love them. Well, even so, this is rather shocking, what? Some diver should go down there with a can of polish or something."

The comical problem of complaining about the deterioration of a wrecked ship had me....

....remembering the ABBA-esque song "Danger on the Titanic" performed by the obscure group SAILOR. 

In the late 70's, many tried to copy ABBA's cheesy harmonies and fizzy enthusisasm. This quartet has more than a dab of Abba, and they drag in some aspects of Queen as well, in this No-themian rhapsody. The result makes the Titanic's winter horror quite summer campy. 

The lyrics by Philip Pickett pluck some gamey strings of wordplay: "I'm drowning in my salty tears…Don't leave me drowning with tears in my wine. Just when I found you we hit an iceberg. It's man overboard!" 

Predictably, "Titanic" rhymes with "panic." 

Was it a dream? Is a ghost doing the singing? Maybe so:

"We danced the tango as the waves crashed down upon the dance floor.
We carried on, 'cause this was our favorite song." 

Then they began to do "The Swim." Look elsewhere for a download of Harry Chapin's "Dance Band on the Titanic." Here, on the blog of less renown....

SAILOR sings about THE TITANIC! Instant download or listen on line