That fateful night
I woke to hear the sound
Like a gun shot
Both windows shaking loud
Great lengthy cries
They came racing through the sky
From a fearsome wreck
With grey daggers stuck in her neck
Crimson dawn my heart was torn
A midnight rescue we were called upon
Freedom fires with burning eyes
Her figure tangled up in turning tides
So I cut her free and fine
This floating town
Had broke up, run aground
The call came out
To put fair Charlotte in
We ploughed those waves
A hundred souls to save
And in fading light
Well I held on strong and tight
And the last hand I would save
Was a beauty fair with wild, torn, tangled hair
Thick rope entwined so I cut her free and fine
Into a fast embrace
Well I held her face to face