Misc Traditional – The Thresher Disaster (Guitar)

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Oh we had a submarine, she was mighty fast and lean,

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And she ran by atomic power too.

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And although she was the best,they had one more diving test

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so the Thresher could show what she could do.

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Now she's gone, gone, gone, to the bottom of the sea,

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and she's two hundred miles from the shore.

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It was just a diving test,but they laid her there to rest

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on the cold and lonesome ocean floor.

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Now the boys were still alive when she started in to dive,

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for she radioed that she was goin' down.

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what went wrong we cannot say but it was later on that day

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that the flotsam and the oil slick were found.

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Now she's gone, gone, gone, to the bottom of the sea,

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and she's two hundred miles from the shore.

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It was just a diving test,but they laid her there to rest

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on the cold and lonesome ocean floor.

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Although none of them were mine we lost a hundred and twenty nine,

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and I feel just like I lost a friend,

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and I sit and wonder why those poor sailors had to die,

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and I wonder when this killin' gonna end.

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Now she's gone, gone, gone, to the bottom of the sea,

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and she's two hundred miles from the shore.

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It was just a diving test,but they laid her there to rest

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on the cold and lonesome ocean floor.