“Gone, but not forgotten”

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“Gone, but not forgotten”

Thousands of Merchant Seamen's graves still lie on the ocean bed,
Please remember us they merely would have said.
Beneath the cruel sea our children no longer weep,
'Many a brave heart lies asleep in the Deep'.

Gone, but not forgotten,
Our Merchant brothers lay.
A nation’s blood was taken,
Such a price to pay?

Gone, but not forgotten, we remember them today,
Those that were our life line, all souls for we pray.
With a Countries call to arms and face the mighty Hun,
They answered the call to save us all, rarely with a gun.

Gone, but not forgotten,
Our Merchant brothers lie.
Conversing now with “Davey”
No choice in when would die.

Thousands of Merchant Seamen's graves still lie on the ocean bed,
Many not recorded even though they are dead.
Thousands of Merchant Seamen's graves still lie on the ocean bed,
Most would wish the enemy, were lying there instead.

Gone, but not forgotten,
We do our best to remember.
Those deemed misbegotten,
At Tower Hill, September.

Gone, but not forgotten, we remember them today,
Heroes of one and all,“Our Merchant Navy Men”.
Could have lost without them, in virtually every way,
A nation would have starved without them, then.

Gone with bodies everywhere,
And to all those that care,
A reminder of the debt we owe,
And those seamen that once dared.

Gone, but not forgotten, we remember them today,
A bunch of regular sailors, captains and fellow crew.
Loved ones and some children they –
fathered, but never knew.

Gone, but not forgotten,
Our Merchant brothers lay.
A nation’s blood was taken,
Such a price to pay?

To all that that may be lost to this world and sail on in another, may one day we join you in the happy place that is known as Fiddlers Green.

KG.

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