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Man is the Sea your master Sea and is man your slave	A
This is the song of brave men who never know they are brave	A
Ceaselessly watching to save you stranger from foreign lands	B
Soundly asleep in your state room full sail for the Goodwin Sands	B
Life is a dream they tell us but life seems very real	C
When the lifeboat puts out from Ramsgate and the buggers put out from Deal	C
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A gun from the lightship a rocket a cry of Turn out me lad	D
Ship on the Sands they're shouting and a rush of the oilskin clad	D
The lifeboat leaping and swooping in the wake of the fighting tug	E
And the luggers afloat in Hell's water Oh tourist with cushion and rug	E
Think of the freezing fury without one minute's relief	F
When they stood all night in the blackness by the wreck of the Indian Chief	F
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Lashed to their seats and crouching to the spray that froze as it flew	G
Twenty six hours in midwinter That was the lifeboat's crew	G
Twice she was swamped and she righted in the rush of the heavy seas	H
And her tug was mostly buried but these were common things these	H
And the luggers go out whenever there's a hope to get them afloat	I
And these things they do for nothing and those fishermen say Oh it's nowt	I
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Enemy Friend or Stranger In every sea or land	I
And across the lives of most men run stretches of Goodwin Sand	I
And across the life of a nation as across the track of a ship	J
Lies the hidden rock or the iceberg within the horizon dip	J
And wise men know them and warn us with lightship or voice or pen	K
But we strike and the fool survivors sail on to strike again	K
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But this is a song of brave men wherever is aught to save	A
Christian or Jew or Wowser and I knew one who was brave	A
British or French or German Dane or Latin or Dutch	L
Scandies that ignorant British reckon with Dagoes and such	L
Where'er on a wreck titanic in a scene of wild despair	M
The officers call for assistance a Swede or a Norse is there	M
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Tale of a wreck titanic with the last boat over the side	I
And a brave young husband fighting his clinging hysterical bride	I
He strikes her fair on the temple while the decks are scarce afloat	I
And he kisses her once on the forehead and he drops her into the boat	I
So he goes to his death to save her and she lives to remember and lie	N
Or be true to his love and courage But that's how brave men die	N
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I hate the slander Be British and I don't believe it that's flat	I
No British sailor and captain would stoop to such cant as that	I
What in the rush of cowards of the help from before the mast	I
Of the two big Swedes and the Norse who stood by the mate to the last	I
In every mining disaster in a New World mining town	O
In one of the rescue parties an Olsen or Hans goes down	O
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Men who fought for their village away on their country's edge	P
The priest with his cross and a musket and the blacksmith with his sledge	P
The butcher with cleaver and pistols and the notary with his pike	Q
And the clerk with what he laid hands on but all were ready to strike	Q
And Tennyson notwithstanding when the hour of danger was come	R
The shopman has struck full often with his cheating yard wand home	S
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This is a song of brave men ever the wide world o'er	T
Starved and crippled and murdered by the land they are fighting for	U
Left to freeze in the trenches sent to drown by the Cape	V
Throttled by army contractors and strangled bv old red tape	V
Fighting for Home and Country or Glory or what you choose	W
Sacrificed for the Syndicates and a monarch in with the Jews	W
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Australia your trial is coming Down with the party strife	X
Send Your cackling lying women back to the old Home Life	X
Brush trom your Parliament benches the legal chaff and dust	I
Make Federation perfect as sooner or later you must	I
Scatter your crowded cities cut up your States and so	Y
Give your brave sons of the future the ghost of a White Man's show	Y

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