We sailed the sea by oceans light,

Around the horn through restless night.

Our course and luck did make it right

To see things new in strange delight.

 

The seas were harsh and took their toll

With branded flesh and tortured soul

And when at last the sun sat low

It touched the earth with blood red glow.

 

The mighty wars have all been won.

Now empty winds slack sails undone.

The world is ours but mates care not

And search in vain for wars un-fought.

 

Silver breakers plight our trough

To sails unfurled and winds aloft

Spirits soar on breezes free

That bear the souls- of sailors we

 

Hear our prayer oh Lord our God.

We lived to serve and wield thy rod.

Though wretches we and racked with flaws

We are the ones who fought thy cause.

 

Now bleached white bones on foreign sands

Attest the toll in far Off lands

For those who heard their countries call,

Brave sailors each, who came to fall.

 

Remember those who served on ships

And bid farewell on endless trips

Across the seas to timbucktu

And lived and died, these chosen few.

We ask this Lord for those so true

And honor bound beneath skies blue

Who served and died for freedoms hand

To hold and cherish this, your land.

 

A sailors death on ships of sleep

With few to know and none to weep

For faith so brave, a soul to keep

A silent grave in oceans deep.

 

 

And when the end has come to pass

And unfilled shadows heaven casts,

Remember we who served and fell

And to the hosts of heaven tell

Bring home my boys, who loved so well.