An old Sailor.

[Captain Kong]

And here`s another one to bring back the memories. I found it in an old file. Brian
Author unknown.

Ten thousand miles and a world away
an old Sailor on his death bed lay,
Alone and forgotten lying there
he softly whispered this dying prayer.
Oh take me back to my younger days
To the old Pier Head and the Landing Stage.
Where the Liver Birds with gaze serene
look down upon the bustling scene.
Where the double decker trams roll by
their trolleys swinging in the sky,
and homeward Dockers wearily tread
underneath the Overhead.
The busy ferry boats leave the Stage
rolling and bumping on the waves.
Fighting hard against the tide
all the way to the other side.
Dockers in long greasy coats
horses and carts on the luggage boats
Buckets and spades in grubby hands
heading for New Brighton sands
Banana boats and liners tall
moored together along the Wall.
Copra, cotton and sugar cane
barges loading up with grain.
Wet Nellies and great mugs of tea
in the Cocoa rooms by the old Goree
Coolies parading down Scotland Road
dressed in Paddy`s Market clothes.
Gone is the Liverpool that I knew
Gone are all my old friends too
The trams, the horses and the floats
Gone are all the Cunard boats.
Oh take me back to the old Pier Head
to ride once more on the Overhead
To sign on at the Pool again
An old Sailors last trip down Memory Lane.
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[Doc Vernon]

Very nice one Capt
Cheers

[cappy]

a guy who i buy my logs of delivers them and stacks them we always hava a chat ......i wom[nder if hugh could lindly give me some info for his dad who passed away 4 years ago .......he was in the royal navy inww2and was on the hms norfolk when she copped a shell from the scharnhorst......he entered as a boy rating at15 .....his name was thomas douglas angus he was born in hatlepool and would have been a chief petty officer before he joined the merchant navy were he served for for 18 years .....but the family no so little about his career in theany info would be greatly appreciated hugh or any other person on the site .....regards from cappy merchant and royal