Brown (DD 546) - Naval Cruise Book

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h Did we forget anything? — A last look at Japan - One last beer at Enlisted Men ' s club, then the States FAREWELL 11 31

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Our whale boat makes a trip to the Korean beach — Looking back on our woy to the beach — Returning Army Officers ashore Mail goes ashore — Good luck, come visit our camp sometime — Reody to disembark South Korean Naval vessel - Trade camera for rifle? - Another look at Japan Y 7h £ ? ' ' f -m -t.. 30

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I SAILORS HEAVEN i I When at last I drop my anchor, The great ship ' ll be waiting there. To transport me to my heaven, I know it won ' t be bore. Every sailor of the oceans, Every man who rode the tide. Deep water Sailors Rovers, There too, they shall abide. Men of the Merry Dun O ' Dover, La Grande Oiosse Foundre, Stout hearted were these laddies, Who drove the great salt spray. Q lumbus, Droke and Perry, Magellan and Erickson too. You ' ll see them all, me hearties, When the great ship comes for you. She ' s too big to cruise the narrows, She ' ll sail the ocean blue, The moon it ' s said, is her mast head light. The north star her anchor light too. She braved the English Channel, And scraped her port side bright, Ask any sailor who ' s cruised there, He ' s seen the cliffs of white. The spanking of her great prow, On the seas that she does ride. Raises swells on ail seven seas. That shore folk call the tide. Her sticks in height are many leagues, The winds her sails retard. Six days and nights it ' ll take to climb, up to her royal yard. She ' s manned by Ghosts who do the work, You ' ll do no labor there, Just listen to the Bo ' suns pipe. And smile without a care. She ' ll make every port in the universe. She knows no creed or race. As long as you ' re a sailor true. For you there ' ll be a place. So come with me, ye hearties. When our cruisin ' days are o ' er. We ' ll board the great ship at the pier. And sail away from shore. When she comes to gather our sailors bones. And her decks begin to rise, We ' ll wake with vigorous life anew, In sailors paradise. By L. W. Payne 32