The Merchant Navy Man

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Starlet toasts the Merchant Navy

The Story:

Nothing gets a bunch of sailors more fired up than a pretty movie star. British actress Anna Neagle is in Montreal to appear on CBC Radio's Merchant Navy Show, and she's warmly received by the 1,200 men who pack Montreal's Sailor's Institute. To their delight, she comes ready with a poem about the bravery of the merchant mariners who daily defy German U-boats on the Atlantic.

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Song of the Merchant Navy in Wartime

You have seen him on the Street,
Rolling round on drunken feet,
You have seen him clutch the lamp-post for support,
You have shuddered in disgust,
When he’s grovelled in the dust,
‘Cause he’s just a Merchant Seaman back in port.

You have seen his ship in port,
When to his sweetheart paying court,
You have seen him, when his ship is on the spree,
But you have not seen the clip,
Of that lonely ‘blacked out’ ship,
Ploughing furrows through the mine infested sea.

He has brought your wounded home, through the “ Sub “, congested zone,
He has carried your troops across the sea by night,
He’s a hero and a sport,
And when he is not in port,
He is always in the thickest of the fight.

He has fought your wicked ‘Hun’,
With just a 4: 7 inch gun,
He has ruined Hitler’s Atllantic Ocean plan,
But when he is back in port,
He’s no hero, he’s no sport,
He is nothing……..but a drunken Sailorman.

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