So Far From The Clyde
The day of the beaching
- The day of the beaching
- She's a dead ship sailing
- Skeleton crew
- The galley is empty
- The stove pots are cooling
- With what's left of a stew
- Her time is approaching
- The captain moves over
- The hangman steps in
- To do what he's paid for
- With the wind and the tide
- She goes proud ahead steaming
- And he drives her hard into the shore
- So far from the clyde
- Together we'd ride
- We did ride
- As if to a wave
- From her bows to her rudder
- Bravely she rises
- To meet with the land
- Under their feet
- They all feel her keel shudder
- A shallow sea washes their hands
- Later the captain
- Shakes hands with the hangman
- And climbs slowly down
- To the oily wet ground
- Goes bowed to the car
- That has come here to take him
- Through the graveyard and back to the town
- So far from the clyde
- Together we'd ride
- We did ride
- They pull out her cables
- And hack off her hatches
- Too poor to be wasteful
- With pity or time
- They swarm on her carcass
- With torches and axes
- Like a whale on the bloody shoreline
- Stripped of her pillars
- Her stays and her stanchions
- When there's only her bones
- On the wet poisoned land
- Steel ropes will drag her
- With winches and engines
- Til there's only a stain on the sand
- So far from the clyde
- Together we'd ride
- We did ride
- So far from the clyde
- Together we'd ride
- We did ride
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