Now playing: the Penny Arcade e-racing Sea Shanty!

Link here. Singing and vocal arrangement by Nonnie Reed: a PDF to the shanty itself is below, with text after the fold. Also, this is very cool and I enjoyed it greatly. I hope you will, too.

(PS: this is my new book: Tales From the Fermi Resolution. Free on Kindle Unlimited!)

The Flying Koala Commemorative Unofficial Penny Arcade Racing League Sea Shanty

Riding the wall, boys,
We’re riding the wall:
WHAM! BAM! Another car’s done!
Don’t go to the left, boys,
You’ll splutter and stall:
Don’t you change lanes
Until you have won.

The racing is heavy,
The cars are all fast:
WHAM! BAM! Another car’s done!
They roar and pass quickly
To put us in last:
Don’t you change lanes
Until you have won.

Riding the wall, boys,
We’re riding the wall:
WHAM! BAM! Another car’s done!
Don’t bother with pit stops
E’en for nature’s call!
Don’t you change lanes
Until you have won.

The track is degrading,
It’s mar-zee-ah-pan:
WHAM! BAM! Another car’s done!
When racers start spinning
It’s part of our plan:
Don’t you change lanes
Until you have won.

Riding the wall, boys,
We’re riding the wall:
WHAM! BAM! Another car’s done!
The black flag is waving
While more race cars fall:
Don’t you change lanes
Until you have won.

As the wreckage and tires
Rain down from the sky
WHAM! BAM! Another car’s done!
Win this race we will
Since there is no ‘try’:
Don’t you change lanes
Until you have won.

Riding the wall, boys,
We’re riding the wall
WHAM! BAM! Another car’s done!
As tragic misfortune
The others befall:
Don’t you change lanes
Until you have won.

The checkered flag beckons
To end this fierce clash.
WHAM! BAM! Another car’s done!
This strategy’s working,
The last lap we ….CRASH.
See the crowd cheer
As we e-clipse the sun.

Tumble and fall, boys,
We tumble and fall:
WHAM! BAM! And now our car’s done!
As things stop their spinning
My crew chief did call:
“Why did-n’t you change lanes?
You might’ve then won!”