Kipling ..... the poem was by Rudyard Kipling and the tune by Peter Bellamy.

MY BOY JACK

Have you news of my boy Jack?
Not this tide
When d'you think he'll come back?
Not with this wind blowing, and this tide

Has anyone else had word of him?
Not this tide
For what is sunk will hardly swim
Not with this wind blowing, and this tide

Oh, dear, what comfort can I find?
None this tide
Nor any tide
Except he did not shame his kind
Not even with this wind blowing, and this tide

Then hold your head up all the more
This tide
And every tide
Because he was the son you bore
And gave to that wind blowing, and that tide