For you see I ain’t no spouter, and I’ve not the gift o’ patter,
But all the same I knows full well that many things is wrong;
And drownding is for me and mine so serious a matter,
That if the case is put for us, it can’t be put too strong.
So whilst I continues my duty to do,
Until my last trip is completed,
I hope that the Board will do its dooty, too,
And see that Tom’s properly treated.
There’s such talk about insoorance and the likes, I’ve often wonder’d
If there’s any human feeling in this great and Christian land,