NOW THIS IS THE BALLAD OF CARLOS DEW
XO OF THE GREAT GOLD CREW
WHO DWELT WITH THEIR FATE
OF THE FINAL PATROL OF 1962
NOW CARLOS DEW WAS AN OFFICER BOLD
HIS SLEEVE AND HIS CAP WERE BOSSED WITH GOLD
AND THE FURLED STANDARD HIS HENCHMAN BORE
WAS A BIT OF MOCKERY">
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From Ray Tierney |
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The
Ballad of Carlos Dew
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NOW THIS IS THE BALLAD OF CARLOS DEW
XO OF THE GREAT GOLD CREW
WHO DWELT WITH THEIR FATE
OF THE FINAL PATROL OF 1962
NOW CARLOS DEW WAS AN OFFICER BOLD
HIS SLEEVE AND HIS CAP WERE BOSSED WITH GOLD
AND THE FURLED STANDARD HIS HENCHMAN BORE
WAS A BIT OF MOCKERY,
BUT NOTHING MORE
HE PUNISHED THE WICKED, HE ADMONISHED THE WRONG
FROM THE PIER AT EB TO OLD LOCH LONG
HE WAS CALLED THE COUNT, HE WAS CALLED MR. CLEAN
HE DELIGHTED IN HEARING THE ENLISTED SCREAM
WHILE OVER THE WATERS HIS BOOSTERS CRIED
THE PATRIOT FIGHTS FOR HIS COUNTRY SIDE
BUT LITTLE THEY CARED, FOR HIS FINE ADDRESS
THE WORN TIRED SAILORS IN DEMIN DRESS
WHO POLISHED THE BRIGHT WORK AND SCRUBBED THE DECK
ATTENDED HIS LECTURES AND KEPT WITHIN SPEC
NOW FIRST OF THE FOEMAN OF CARLOS DEW
WERE THE LIBERTY HOUNDS OF THE GREAT GOLD CREW
AND THEIRS WAS A COMPANY ONE HUNDRED STRONG
THAT HUSTLED THAT RESOLUTE MAN ALONG
THERE WERE LADS FROM OREGON, KANSAS, AND WEST
WHO WENT TO HIS MAST WITH A JOKE IN THEIR BREATH
AND CURSED WITH FLUENCY, FEVOR AND RUE
THE LIMITING STANDARDS OF CARLOS DEW
BUT EVER A BLIGHT ON THEIR LABOR LAY
AND EVER THEIR LIBERTY WOULD VANISH AWAY
TILL THE FUN LOVING BOYS OF THE OLD GOLD CREW
TOOK A BROTHERLY INTEREST IN CARLOS DEW
AND SOOTH, IF HARASSMENT IN HIS TRANSFER ENDS
THE COUNT AND HIS FOREMAN WERE THE BEST OF FRIENDS
THEY CURSED THEIR LUCK AS SAILORS WILL
THEY GAVE HIM CREDIT FOR CUNNING AND SKILL
THEY CONTINUED TO FIELD DAY BUT SEEMED MORE ALIVE
AND WAITED FOR WORD FROM THE 625
THEN OUT OF THE WARDROOM WITH YELLS AND SQUEALS
PRANCED CARLOS DEW HIS GANG AT HIS HEELS
A SCREW IS MISSING, IN MASLAND A CRACK
GEAR ADRIFT, NO ANSWER BACK
PAINTWORK SCORCHED WHERE THE ARD WELD KISSED
ALL IS UNSAT, WE MUST MAKE UP A LIST
TO PURGE MANEUVERING HE HAS N0T THE HEART?
BUT FATE HAD ORDAINED THAT THE COUNT SHOULD START
ON A LONE HAND RAID OF THAT REAR MOST PART
THE BILGE IS FULL OF OIL? THEREIN A P2 WILL TOIL
A CABLE TAG PAINTED OVER. THE NUCKIES TAKEN OUT OF CLOVER
NOW A WELL TIMED RAID ON MCC
IS DELIGHTFUL TO THE SOUL, A GLORIOUS THING TO SEE
AND THUS IN A MANNER UNDIGNIFIED
THE PRINCELY PRIDE OF THE GOLD CREW SIGHED
TURN NOW TO NEW LONDON
WHERE LAPPED IN THEIR EASE
THE BLUIES ARE PETTING THE WIVES ON THEIR KNEES
DONE WITH THE SWORD BELT, RELEASED FROM THE STEEL
THE PEACE OF THE LORD IS STAMPED LIKE A SEAL
NOW THEIR WIVES ARE DAMSELS OF DELICATE MOULD
WITH HATE FOR POLARIS AND THE COLOR GOLD
AND LITTLE THEY KNOW,
THE EYE THAT LIGHTS AT HER LIGHTEST BREATH
HAD GLARED UNAWED AT MACHINERY'S DEATH
AND LITTLE THEY KNEW, THE ARMS THAT EMBRACED
HAD BEEN UNABLE TO HOLD THE GOLDIE'S PACE
(FOR THESE BE THINGS THAT A BLUIE WOULD HIDE
AS A GENERAL RULE FROM HIS INNOCENT BRIDE)
SO THE PATROLS ARE LONGER AND CLEANER
AND SOMETIMES BEING GOLD CREW
CAN BE A MIGHTY TOUGH BILLET TO CHEW
GRUDGINGLY WE THANK YOU CARLOS DEW.
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