Good Ship - Celebration

Anchors drag.

Our cables surge

The hurting sea breaks veils on the verge

While waves foam and churn

We drifty slowly astern astern

Beyond, the storm’s a looming

THE END we are assuming

Mast break sharp to shreds

Strings like a harp’s instead

She’s headed out for the open main

Our hearts beating, one and all

On crowded decks and reeling bows

The tempest tossed the hope we lost

The hearts we crossed

OH, god save our souls!

Tell my family not to mourn

The sea life they do curse and scorn

Tell that bonny bride

Where my broken bones reside

Deep in that briny dark

My chest consumed by great white shark

Then I shall veer into the tide

Soul free and death with pride

Our hearts beating, one and all

On crowded decks and reeling bows

The tempest tossed the hope we lost

The hearts we crossed

OH god save our souls!