THE LONG SILENCE FALLS

[D.J.J. Ring, Jr.]

THE LONG SILENCE FALLS

By Mike Snell 

When the Long Silence falls

And the Morse no longer calls

Our thoughts turn back to sea

To those days so long ago

Which are written on the soul

When we tapped out those rhythms on a key

No vessel could sail or go

Without the ship's RO

We saw so many ports

And sailed to tropic climes

Where young ladies knew their lines

And the world seemed so much bigger then

If we journeyed out to east

And maybe life's exotic feast

And for some those days still hold their yen

Oh we were young and free

All because of Marconi

But alas those days are now long gone

Like a thief in the night there came a satellite

And to the sea we no longer belong

We are just a memory

Of the Twentieth Century

From Liverpool to Old Hong Kong

From Liverpool to Old Hong Kong 

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