This is called "Viking Song" and is listed in Music Around the World, Book 6, a school songbook published by Silver Burdett in 1956. The words are by Ruth and Thomas Martin and the tune by Norman Dello Joio.
VIKING SONG
(words by Ruth and Thomas Martin; tune by Norman Dello Joio)
1. A marvelous tale known to all near and far
Is told of the once mighty ship Skagramar
Her mast rising proudly above the blue bay
And swift as a cloud she went sailing away
Adventuring northward and far from her home
Through icy green water and fleecy white foam.
2. The ship traveled onward and into the night
Pursued by a storm wind of terrible might
So deep was the darkness not even one star
Shone down from the sky on the brave Skagramar
Lashed on by the waves with a terrible roar
She shattered and sank off a wild rocky shore.
3. Forever and ever the mariners say
A ghost ship sails high on the pale milky way
They watch for it always wherever they roam
Eternally seeking a safe voyage home
It fades in the glow of the clear morning star
The ghost of the once mighty ship Skagramar.
Source: Music Around the World, Book 6, a school songbook published by Silver Burdett in 1956
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