Enter The Haggis - White Squall lyrics

Well it's just my luck to have the watch With nothing left to do But to watch the deadly water glide As we roll north to the Soo And wonder when they'll turn again And pitch us to the rail Whirl off one more youngster in the gale The kid was so damn eager It was all so big and new Never had to tell him twice Or find him work to do And evenings on the mess deck He was always first to sing Show us pictures of The girl he'd wed in spring But I told that kid a hundred times Don't take the lakes for granted They go from calm to a hundred knots So fast they seem enchanted But tonight a red-eyed Wiarton girl Lies staring at the wall And her lover's gone into a white squall It's a thing that us old-timers know In a sultry summer calm There comes a blow from nowhere And it goes off like a bomb And a fifteen-hundred tonner Can be thrown upon her beam While the gale takes all before it with a scream The kid was on the hatches Lying, staring at the sky From where I stood I swear I could see tears fall from his eyes So I hadn't the heart to tell him That he should be on a line Even on a night so warm and fine But I told that kid a hundred times Don't take the lakes for granted They go from calm to a hundred knots So fast they seem enchanted But tonight a red-eyed Wiarton girl Lies staring at the wall And her lover's gone into a white squall And I could feel her keeling over With the fury of the blow And I watched the rail go under then So terrible and slow Then like some great dog She shook herself And roared upright again Far over side I heard him call my name But I told that kid a hundred times Don't take the lakes for granted They go from calm to a hundred knots So fast they seem enchanted But tonight a red-eyed Wiarton girl Lies staring at the wall And her lover's gone into a white squall