Perhaps you could modify this song from David Stone.

The Soldier's Farewell
Words and Music - David Stone/Darryl Landry/Jadairpublishing/SOCAN
A young Scottish soldier posted in 19th century Halifax sadly bids adieu...

 
 
 

Chorus
I Say Farewell Now my time is through
The evening sun is sinking down
As darkness settles o'er these waters
It's away that I am bound
 
I see stone walls above the harbor
And the ship that waits for me
The horizon the peaceful waters
Soon across them I will be
 

I see the tall masts all down the shoreline
Ships as far as the eye can see
It's aboard one I'm bound for leaving
To a place that I care not to be
 
Here on King's Wharf I stand silent
As the wherry ferries o'er to me
I must sail now, back home to England
But here I leave the very heart of me
 

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A battle's raging o'er the sea
I must fight for King and Country
That thought scares me half to death
But I must go now, for I'd never run away
 

So goodbye ladies and goodbye comrades
Your fair city regretfully I leave
Though I cursed it on my arrival
Now there's no place on earth I'd rather be
 
I Say Farewell Now my time is through
The evening sun is sinking down
As darkness settles o'er these waters
It's away that I am bound
As darkness settles o'er these waters
It's away that I am bound