THE MERCHANT NAVY
(J. H. Moody) They sailed Ihe seven seas s Their decks awash with foam i With all tlve riggin blown to hell i Ten thousand miles from home. t They stoked the. gurgling boilers With tlicir j'uecs grimed with bhick To Frisco town from London ] Then homeward bound and back. They swept .up mines with trawleis 1 With a ;jigg-<saw paravane 1 On a stretching rope between o 1 boats Sagging in the strain. In convoys thick they've travelled Weighted dewi! w'.tli I'uol 1 . | • To feed the starving millions ] Of England's mighty bmod. Thej T have sailed the Seven Sc.tTheir 'decks awash j Lll f(.i;:n Willi ail the rlggin blow n to hei! Ten thousand miles J'nun home. . They've sailed the Seven Seas 1 For England, home, and you And they will sail the Seven Sea* Till England does win through.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 05, Issue 84, 29 July 1942, Page 6
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144THE MERCHANT NAVY Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 05, Issue 84, 29 July 1942, Page 6
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