Captain Hook , the villain of Peter Pan, is famously unidextrous. But what was his status before the encounter which took deprived him of his hand.

Paul Curtis

Hook

There is something puzzling me
As it doesn’t say in the book
Before his hand was taken
What did they call captain hook

It’s a difficult one to answer
Maybe he was evil captain fist
Or was he called captain two hands
Not really a very menacing list

And was it simply irony, mere chance
Or was his accident planned
For if not for the crocodile
He would have remained a deck hand