Visions
Shipwreck
Back in the twenties on the West coast,
a ship had piled up on the rocky shore.
Only a Coast Guard rowboat was available,
It had gone out through the choppy sea
bringing back six sailors to safety.
One remained and as they went to leave,
one of the four men's mother popped up.
Gray haired and distraught, she cried out
"Son, don't go! Your father was lost at sea.
Your brother, George, sailed off three years ago.
No one has heard of him since! Don't go!
You're all I have left! I beg you, don't go!"
He replied "Mother, I've got to go. It's my duty."
So off they went through that perilous sea
and as soon as they returned, her son called out
to the men on the shore "We got him!
Tell my mother It's George!"
a ship had piled up on the rocky shore.
Only a Coast Guard rowboat was available,
It had gone out through the choppy sea
bringing back six sailors to safety.
One remained and as they went to leave,
one of the four men's mother popped up.
Gray haired and distraught, she cried out
"Son, don't go! Your father was lost at sea.
Your brother, George, sailed off three years ago.
No one has heard of him since! Don't go!
You're all I have left! I beg you, don't go!"
He replied "Mother, I've got to go. It's my duty."
So off they went through that perilous sea
and as soon as they returned, her son called out
to the men on the shore "We got him!
Tell my mother It's George!"
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Shipwreck
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