# Nantucket **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [March 1, 2000, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nantucket/7894 "2000-03-01T00:22:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Kiki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/dc4da7/32.png) [@Kiki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kiki)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2000, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nantucket/7894/1 "2000-03-01T00:22:00Z")
## “There once was a girl from Nantucket”… what’s the rest? That John Denver’s full of shit man! ---
**Author:** ![Padeye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a9a28c/32.png) [@Padeye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Padeye)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2000, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nantucket/7894/2 "2000-03-01T00:49:00Z")
I once knew a man from Nantucket, but the stories about him were greatly exaggerated. ---
**Author:** ![pluto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f08c70/32.png) [@pluto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pluto)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2000, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nantucket/7894/3 "2000-03-01T00:53:00Z")
We had a thread on this a while back, with the Nantucket limerick and all the rest. Do a search on “Nantucket” and see what turns up. However: There was an old man from Nantucket Who kept all his cash in a bucket. His daughter, called Nan, Ran away with a man, And as for the bucket, Nantucket. * * * he sleeps on that pile/of newspapers/in the corner/and when he takes off his/shoes you cannot/smell his breath “king nicky”, _archyology_ Don Marquis ---
**Author:** ![Arnold\_Winkelried](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2000, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nantucket/7894/4 "2000-03-01T00:57:00Z")
[http://www.nantucket.net/YI/limerick/](http://www.nantucket.net/YI/limerick/) ---
**Author:** ![siva](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7c8e57/32.png) [@siva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/siva)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2000, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nantucket/7894/5 "2000-03-01T01:00:00Z")
My dad told me different: There was a woman from Nantucket Who flew to the moon in a bucket. When she got there they asked for her fare, So she pulled out her t\*ts and said suck it. ---
**Author:** ![siva](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7c8e57/32.png) [@siva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/siva)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2000, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nantucket/7894/6 "2000-03-01T01:01:00Z")
My dad told me different: There was a woman from Nantucket Who flew to the moon in a bucket. When she got there they asked for her fare, So she pulled out her t\*ts and said suck it. ---
**Author:** ![andros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e480ec/32.png) [@andros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/andros)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2000, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nantucket/7894/7 "2000-03-01T01:09:00Z")
Thanks for the link **Arnold**! My grandfather used to recite several of those but I could only remember a few. [nantucket.org](http://nantucket.org). Logical. :forehead slap: -andros- ---
**Author:** ![Satan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Satan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Satan)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2000, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nantucket/7894/8 "2000-03-01T02:20:00Z")
Cecil answered this, but I couldn’t find it in thee archives. * * * Yer pal, Satan ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2000, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nantucket/7894/9 "2000-03-01T02:44:00Z")
The version I originally heard was much more risque. R-rated. There once was a man from Nantucket Whose d_ck was so long he could suck it. He said with a grin As he wiped off his chin "If my ear were a c_nt I could f\*ck it!" I think this is the version most people refer to, since the schitcks that use it never finish the limerick.