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Our captain Emmet Gallagher, a boy so brave and young
At his parents home they now know the tidings of their son;
it is now the pangs of sorrow that will pierce a mother’s heart.
As she learns the day has come so soon, her boy from her must part.

Twas but a few short weeks before, when Emmet he had said,
“There’s a place on in Lake Huron that will not give up its dead;
its called a sailor’s grave-yard words he was known to say;
As he laid out on the Clifton’s deck, he showed them where it lay.

We had there three more friends of ours, out in this com-pan-y,
Brought up on Beaver Island and had followed up the sea;
Twas Anthony McDonough, Joe Shied and Peter Barns;
We hope to meet them back a-gain, and wish their glad return.

Young Anthony came 8 on board he has sailed the ocean blue
he had come back to the great lakes and had joined the clifton’s crew
to be among companions on his early boyhood days
he was doomed like many more on board to fill a sailor’s grave

Among the four companions on the clifton that were drowned
joe shied he was the only one of them was ever found
their lifeless forms in silence now are drifting far and wide
til they waste away from day to day and wear with time and tide

Their fathers they will not forget that day so sad and long,
When their thoughts were of the Clifton and their dear boys that are gone.
Also, their sisters they will weep and mourn their brothers dear,
Whose smiles they’ll never more behold, their saddened hearts to cheer…

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from Once More A​-​Lumb'ring Go, released November 19, 2022

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