Well you asked for despair!!!

Rod's song. Tune: Searching for lambs. Words E M Draper

The decks are silent, the wheel is still
No voices raised in song.
No capstan turning, no sails unfurling,
Now the shanty man is gone.

The journey's over, no course to steer,
No foaming billows roar.
The sailors songs are faint and gone,
And the shanty man's no more.

The masts and sails are turned to dust,
The wheel and tiller are gone,
The days of steam are just a dream,
So too, the shanty man's song.