Post by Administrator on Feb 4, 2022 20:48:49 GMT
HENRY BACON
Sit down friend and pause a bit,
And I’ll tell you of a famous ship.
Her crew were heroes brave and bold,
Her story was not often told.
They were sailing back from Russian shore,
The numbing cold hard to ignore.
Across a vast engulfing sea,
The BACON sailed for liberty.
They left their cargo at old Murmansk,
Those men were up to any task.
They carried on as seamen do,
To bring the BACON to Loch Ewe.
They Germans found them broken down,
And ugly duckling homeward bound.
Her crew had fought the raging sea,
And bombing by the enemy.
Burbine, Reed, Tatosky too,
Heroes all of World War Two.
They did not shirk or hesitate,
Ask them of bosun Lammon’s fate.
Today some sleep beneath the wave,
Aboard the ship they fought to save.
A few came home again to sail.
With men like these we could not fail.
Ian A. Millar
Sit down friend and pause a bit,
And I’ll tell you of a famous ship.
Her crew were heroes brave and bold,
Her story was not often told.
They were sailing back from Russian shore,
The numbing cold hard to ignore.
Across a vast engulfing sea,
The BACON sailed for liberty.
They left their cargo at old Murmansk,
Those men were up to any task.
They carried on as seamen do,
To bring the BACON to Loch Ewe.
They Germans found them broken down,
And ugly duckling homeward bound.
Her crew had fought the raging sea,
And bombing by the enemy.
Burbine, Reed, Tatosky too,
Heroes all of World War Two.
They did not shirk or hesitate,
Ask them of bosun Lammon’s fate.
Today some sleep beneath the wave,
Aboard the ship they fought to save.
A few came home again to sail.
With men like these we could not fail.
Ian A. Millar