Fresh fish straight from the sea

What’s the most delicious thing you’ve ever eaten?

I like so many different things

Variety‘s key for me

But fresh fish straight from the sea

Is very hard to beat.

Here’s some different instances

Of how I‘ve had it served

Different places, different tastes

But every one a treat.

First we‘ll go to Kerala

Across from a Kovalam beach

Point at the fish

The bit that you like

And choose how you want it spiced.

A meaty fish, wonderfully spiced

And so very good to eat.

A wonderful biryani

That we really loved

Kerala does it for me.

Now let’s head off to Ghana

A palm lined beach near Cape Coast

Where if you should order a lobster

They’ll swim off into the sea.

The lobsters de- shelled

On a nice bed of rice

In a basket they bring to the beach.

A wee bit of chilli

And let me say really

There’s few things much better

To eat.

Now we’re back home

And fishing off Dorset

For Mackerel straight out the sea.

Draping our lines

Off the side of the boat

Three lady companions and me.

They all caught plenty

I never caught any

But that’s how it is with me!

Now straight off the boat

My wife went to work

And gutted those fish

From the sea.

I went to buy wine

That would wash our meal down

And add to our meal by the sea.

It was cooked really simply

Just barbecued really

Fresh fish straight on the grill

But I have to say really

The fish we caught lately

Made really a wonderful meal.