The Good Ship Venus

	In a January 17, 1995, letter to the editor, Professor Emeritus Rowland Berthoff of Washington University, St. Louis, noted he sang this in the army during the second world war.  "Most of your verses [in the second edition] are familiar, though the lines are sometimes rearranged."  Then he added two additional stanzas:

The ship's dog's name was Rover,
His bed was no bed of clover.
We ground and ground that faithful hound
From Singapore to Dover.

We sailed to every nation
In search of new sensation.
We sailed that junk through seas of spunk
From mutual masturbation.