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Thread #11484   Message #86415
Posted By: liz randall
13-Jun-99 - 05:06 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Franklin
Subject: RE: Franklin
I don't know what you call a fragment. Will this help:

Homeward bound one night on the deep
Rocked in my hammock I fell asleep
I dreamed a dream and I thought it treu
Concerning Franklin and his gallant crew.

With a hundred seamen he sailed away
Cross the western ocean in the month of May
To find passage around the pole
Where we poor seamen do sometimes go.

Through cruel hardships we made no go
Our ship on mountains of ice was yhrown
Where the eskimo in his skin canoe
Are the only ones who ever get through.

In Baffin Bay where the whale fish blow,
The fate of Franklin no man may know.
The fate of Franklin no man may tell
Lord Franklin along with his sailors do dwell.

And now my burden it gves me pain
For my long lost Franklin I would cross the main
Ten thousand pounds I would surely give
To know on earth that my Franklin do live.

Lovely song
Lizzie