Words & Music by Tim Hus
Copyright Tim Hus Music 2013

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A sailor has no grave you can stand upon the shore
Hear the breakers rolling on the tide for evermore
You can’t lay a flower bouquet on an ocean wave
You may mourn and cry but a sailor has no grave

We sailed away on the fifth of May from a Nova Scotia port
In a time when the grey Atlantic was a battlefield of war
Convoys and escorts were the order of the day
Somewhere out there a wolf pack lay waiting beneath the waves

England is an island, an empire in the sea
Her trade routes are the waters, her pride the navy fleet
Down below there’s a hunter, their prey a tonnage war
No Allied vessel’s safe from harm from the Arctic to the Azores

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The shipyards and the chandleries they laid them down
Some three hundred hulls named for every town
In the mid ocean battles they answered to the task
Gallant little escorts: corvettes of the flower class

Through the Western Approaches in the pale moonlight
Our tanker torpedoed and a great blaze of fire
Our convoy unveiled, we feared for our fate
Neptune knew my number when I signed my name

I’m a forgotten sailor forsaken by time
Drowned in the deep when I was in my prime
Remembered by no one I never was missed
I’m a forgotten sailor from the Battle of the Atlantic

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