Widow's Song

Widow's Song

 

You see disaster

I see a man

You see disaster

I'll not see him again

I always knew it

Risks that he took

I always knew it

Depended on his luck

But he still rescued

Men from the sea

But he still rescued

He couldn't let them be

Don't shout disaster

He tried to save

Don't shout disaster

To save them from the wave

Determined crewmen

Trusting - each one

Determined crewmen

See all the things they've done

A lifetime's service

Rescue at sea

A lifetime's service

Saving and setting free

I always knew it

He might be lost

I always knew it

I'd grieve to count the cost

His life was rescue

I knew at first

His life was rescue

And I know it at last

©2002 Charlotte Peters Rock

charlottepetersrock@tiscali.co.uk  http://charlottepetersrock.blogspot.com

Survivor of The Wells Lifeboat Disaster

Survivor of The Wells Lifeboat Disaster

12th October 1880

Captain Thomas Kew - he wrote a letter

"Dear Friend, Eliza Adams was upset

Of thirteen men - just two of us were rescued

Will Bell died - but Tom Kew has not gone yet

Twenty-eight young orphans and ten widows

Were left to mourn the loss of those brave men

So now I tell you - Nothing marks their passing

And Wells will never see their like again

The bodies found still lie there in the churchyard

No monument commemorates their life

The townsfolk and their children need a solace

Each widow must be proud she was a wife

And I'm the one who's left alive to tell you

The one who left the sea - and still has breath

We need a monument to all these brave men

Whose bravery resulted in their death"

The photograph beside the old memorial

Shows Tom - a big old man who had his way

He raised the money for a new memorial

To honour them  It still stands there today

Captain Thomas Kew - he wrote a letter

"Dear Friend, Eliza Adams was upset

Of thirteen men - just two of us were rescued

Will Bell died - but Tom Kew has not gone yet"

2002 Charlotte Peters Rock

charlottepetersrock@tiscali.co.uk  http://charlottepetersrock.blogspot.com