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At Shiloh's battle, so many were slayed
A gold coin saved Dixon, so a skipper he was made

Cho.
Dive, H.L. Hunley, Dive!
When the bulgine boilers, they were laid,
The Rebel Sub, the H.L. Hunley, she was made.

Any method, Dixon did employ
The North's Men of War, to destroy

On a pier boom spike, he set his spar,
To set a torpedo, on a Yankee blockader

When the Housatonic, hove into view
Many a Rebel, forsaw its doom

Dixon set the tripline wire
The Housatonic, she caught on fire

The Rebel sub, she signaled her cheer,
That was the last we knew for over a 100 year

In Eighteen Hundred and Sixty Four
The Hunley, sank to the Ocean Floor

... Well I thought I'd update Roll Alabama Roll!

BTW, "Das Boot" in the original German is great. Some German techno musicians even pilfered the score and made a very effective (in their special teutonic way) music video in the very early 90s ... my Nachbars couldn't stop playing it.

I guess sea shanties on the Chicago sub will be in order this summer ... see you there! Where's the shanty crowd in Chi Town?

Cheers,
Allahamdalla
Brian