Stribling (DD 867) - Naval Cruise Book

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Hefe'5 a poem I hope They'll use In ThaT book abouT The Med cruise NOW please don'T Think l'm noT sincere l've never been so in all my care-er Bur here's To The picTures and all They claim And Though someTimes iT seems ashame I feel like somebody oughTa reveal jusT how The fellows really feel F'rinsTance someTimes when we were sleeping Righr ouT of our racks we'd seem To be leaping T'wasn'T bad dreams ThaT caused us To rave Buf only The blow ofa Thundering wave SomeTimes The weaTher, despi Te our mobiliTy Made TheChaplain's visiT an impossibiliTy So This Sunday morning, I slepT, you see If iT's Too rough for The Lord, IT's Too rough for me The cooks can'T cook 'cause The weaTher's so bad And lunch meaT on Sunday makes me feel sorT of sad So I rush from The Chow I-Iall, Prayin' 8 I-fopin' ThaT maybe, by chance, The ship's sTore is open lf only once he could be so endearing Simply To halT This insane disappearing Bw, Algal know if musTbe my faulT For each Time I pass, iT's locked up like a vaulT MighT as well geT some rack Time, I guess T If I don'T ThaT mid wafch will leave me a mess ThaT IaTe sleepers Tag is a farce, I know IT mighT as well say, DuTy Reveille l3.O. BuT noT everyThing's misery, Don'T geT me wron To any oTher ouTfiT I'd never belong Spain, France, and lTaIy mighT never be seen Ifl were a Dogface, Flyboy, or Marine Seriously now, some counTries we saw Where ignorance and poverTy seemed To be law Made us Take noTice, and reasonably so OT Thegfine educaTions and comforTs we know Good will ambassadors we Tried To To be And many a friend was made cross The Sea From Bahrein To Gibralrar and The Suez Canal Many a Time we said, Solong, Pal BUT for all The counTries and places exciTing The liTTle children we Thrilled in delighTing Of The memories They hold we could make a Ion Q g lisT STIII deep in our hearTs The place ThaT we missed Was The land far away, where we longed so To The landThaT's The home of my shi And now ThaT our journey has We know we'll soon see our lo l3uT for many a year These S l'low well I remember and When The STRIBLING s T e For The mighTy sea we a Jim Cox

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