Roll Northumbria - The Dreadnoughts

'Twas late 65 at the old wall sea yard

She was commissioned to haul the black tar

And built the Northumbria there on the bar

Roll, Northumbria, Roll

For when the Egyptians they closed the Red Sea

And call came on high from the powers that be

To build a royal monster right down on the key

Roll, Northumbria, Roll, me boys

Roll, Northumbria, Roll

Carpathia, Vengeance, celestial call

She was the tanker to out-size them all

From the banks of the Merci to the port of the Laul

Roll, Northumbria, Roll

And fair Princess Anne threw a bottle of wine

And watch as the giants set down in the Tyne

What lay ahead could no mortal divine

Roll, Northumbria, Roll, me boys

Roll, Northumbria, Roll

And it’s one for the hot sun above

Two for the empire we love

And it’s three for the fire that burns down below

Roll on Northumbria

Roll, Northumbria, Roll

And it’s one for the hot sun above

Two for the empire we love

And it’s three for the fire that burns down below

Roll on Northumbria

Roll, Northumbria, Roll

So come all ya good workmen, beware the command

That comes down on high from the desk of a man

Who’s never held steel or torch in his hands

Roll, Northumbria, Roll

For atop a wild breaker, the cracks in her frame

Spilled her black guts all across the wild Maine

And she limped away through an ocean of flame

Roll, Northumbria, Roll, me boys

Roll, Northumbria, Roll

And it’s one for the hot sun above

Two for the empire we love

And it’s three for the fire that burns down below

Roll on Northumbria

Roll, Northumbria, Roll