Fire & Flame
(专辑: Cures What Ails Ya - 2020)
Let me sing you a
song, boys, of fire and flame Of a
French ammo ship, the
Mont-Blanc was her name How the
brave Nova Scotia was never the
same On the
morning when Halifax burned 'Twas in early December 1917 She was packed to the
gills with Grade-A TNT They were bound for the
fighting in High Germany When towards them the
other ship turned The
Norwegian ship Imo, some fault in her gears She struck Mont-Blanc's side like the
mightiest of spears And the
benzol ignited, the
captain's worst fears As the
fire consumed bow to stern The
people gazed on from their safe distant rooms Watched the
soot and the
smoke fill the
sky with their plumes Though within, the
ship's cargo would spell all their dooms How were they to know to be concerned? The
crew rowed for shore lest they burn or they drown They cried "Save your souls!" as they ran through the
town But their warnings were nothing but strange foreign sounds For the
townsfolk, no French had they learned One man, Patrick Coleman, in the
railway's employ Sent word "Stop the
trains, or they'll all be destroyed! This will be my last message, farewell to you boys" For a
true hero's death he had earned An explosion colossal when the
munitions blew Devastation and debris for miles, fire through The
Mont-Blanc was gone and the
town with it, too And the
waters raged up in return There were heroes and angels all fated to die Over 2000 souls laid to rest by-and-by We will always remember and lift a
glass high To the
morning when Halifax burned