Starbuck's Complaint - The Dreadnoughts

While on this ship, my days are spent

In anxious care, oft discontent

No social circles here are found;

Few friends of mirth all here abound

I think of home, sweet home, denied

With the one I love near by my side

See hoisted high the flag of love

By heavenly breezes waved

Here, sailors, stop, and orders hear

Obey and you’ll be saved

When will kind fortune set me free

That I can quit the boisterous sea?

I love this ship, I love the fight

I love to roar into the night

Oh home, sweet home, so long denied

With the one I love near by my side

So rum and war shall be my share

As we set sail for who knows where

And God help the wretch who finds his flight

Caught in this weaker vessel’s sights

Now home sweet home shall soon be ours

For a song calls out between the stars