Fiddler's Green - Captain Kennedy lyrics

Captain Kennedy I am a young mariner headed to war I'm thinking 'bout my family and what it was for There's water on the woods and the sails feel good And when I get to shore I hope that I can k** good My father was a sailor named Captain Kennedy He lost his wooden schoner to the Germans on the sea Exploded on the water for everyone to see And humiliate that American Captain Kennedy I saw him in Na**au in 1971 His strength was failing but he still ran a run He worked till his fingers wore to the bone To buy that wooden schoner and sail on his own He was known in the islands as a hundred feet iron That steel hull freighter was pa**ing its time And time flew by faster with life on the sea And the days grew shorter for Captain Kennedy