Alan & Brenda Leonard

My son is in Babes in Toyland this fall. I'm sitting here trying to learn
the tunes to the songs he's in because he says he needs help with them.

So, here's the first verse of "I Can't do the Sum".

If a steamship weighed ten thousand tons and sailed five thousand miles,
with cargo large of overshoes and carving knives and files;
if the mates were almost six feet high and the boss'n near the same,
would you subtract or mulitiply to find the captain's name?

This is how story problems at school always sounded to me! :)

Brenda