The song that John Grey sings is called The Penlee Lifeboat Disaster. I also sing it. It was written by John Lambert at the time of the disaster when John Lambert, Me and Frank Lee were sang together as 'Tom, Dick and Harry'. The words are as follows and if you would like the tune, PM me.

Lynne Heraud

PENLEE LIFEBOAT DISASTER
(John Lambert)

One wintry day in December
The Union Star set sail
On her maiden voyage for Ireland bound,
Her engines they did fail
The wind it blew a gale, me boys,
They feared all for to drown
So at twenty hundred hours and
They launched the Solomon Brown

CHORUS
They launched the Solomon Brown, me boys
They launched the Solomon Brown
At twenty hundred hours and ten
They launched the Solomon Brown

Richards was the Coxwain
Madran number two
Brockman, Blewitt and Greenough
Were in her valiant crew
Torry, Wallace and Smith were there
Three fishermen by trade
Eight families lost a man that night
By cruel fate betrayed

CHORUS
By cruel fate betrayed, me boys
By cruel fate betrayed
Eight families lost a man that night
By cruel fate betrayed

No moon shone down upon the scene
Clouds lined the sky above
The Solomon Brown she was washed up
All in Lamorna Cove
Although those eight brave men are lost
They and their boa are gone
While Englishmen still sail the seas
Their story will live on.

CHORUS
Their story will live on, me boys
Their story will live on
While Englishmen still sail the seas
Their story will live on