[ hand written manuscript image]

An early draft of the song "The Armored Cruiser Squadron". From a
scrapbook of Rear Adm. Chauncey Thomas, USN-USNA class of 1871.
(transcript follows.)

The West Virginia and M.D.
Colorado and Pennsy See.
Are just about the proper choice.
For our Armored Cruiser Squadron.

The Washington & Tennessee
The Path-Finders--said to be
Can't hold a chandlestick to we
As an Armored Cruiser Squadron

Away, Away with Fife and Drum
Here we come
Full of rum.
Trying to put someone on the bum

Prior to 1912 when Chauncey Thomas resigned. He died in 1919.   From the book
Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships: Historical sketches p.260. Handwritten
manuscript reproduced.


See here: Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships: Historical sketches