I sang this song on Paltalk a couple of days back and some folk asked for the lyrics to be posted. Gifford has graciously given his permission, so here they are.
Scott
The Kursk Submarine Disaster (G+4)
Sailors of the killers of the deep
Those dinosaurs of deadly consequences
Now lie dead within their deadly ship
Oh how those young men died
Oh how those young men died
And the radiation preys upon my mind
Out there and in so many other places
In Murmansk and Rosyth where others lie
Oh how those young men died
Oh how those young men died
There's a world that lives beyond the edge of reason
Within a world where many will agree
That men should not go sailing out to kill their fellow men
Or leave their deadly litter in the sea
Oh how those young men died
Oh how those young men died
Listen to the cries of Russia's people
So many loved ones lost - the reason why?
To practice sending missiles at some enemy out there
Oh how those young men died
Oh how those young men died
And who is going to ever want to send those missiles off?
Could they ever live with what would happen?
And can we keep believing that to keep them is worthwhile?
Oh how those young men died
Oh how those young men died
Sailors of the killers of the deep
Those dinosaurs of deadly consequences
Now lie dead within their deadly ship
Oh how those young men died
Oh how those young men died
Oh how those young men died
Written during a visit to Dunfermline of the surviving members of the first youth exchange visit by young people of Trondheim following the end of the war in 1946. The aim of the youth exchange programme was to secure peace between people of different countries, and it was the first of the numerous town twinning arrangements that have since been established within Europe. The visit took place in the aftermath of the Kursk Submarine Disaster North of Norway when well over 100 Russian sailors died at the bottom of the Barents Sea after an explosion had ripped a hole in its hull. The disaster adds to the Norwegian concerns about nuclear pollution of the sea, and the young fish stocks from this and other abandoned nuclear submarines on the coastline to the north of their country.
Gifford Lind. 24 August 2000.
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