H.M.S. COSSACK

1947/49 COMMISSION

PAYING OFF  &  “PAY-OFF”

H.M.S. COSSACK

 
“HOW COULD YOU

OH, COSSACK, COSSACK, FLOTILLA LEADER

ESCORTED AMETHYST WHEN IT DIDN’T NEED HER

FROM “CONCORD” YOU TOOK ALL THE HONOUR

WHO WAS HER FOOD AND FUEL DONOR

WE STEAMED UP THE “YANGTZE” 80 MILES

TO PROTECT HER FROM COMMUNIST WILES

REMEMBER “CONCORD” THAT SUNDAY MORN

IN NAVAL HISTORY. ANOTHER STORY WAS BORN

YOU WERE FORGOTTEN, FILLED WITH DISMAY

WHEN COSSACK TOOK THE PRAISE THAT DAY

BUT BEAR UP, BEAR OFF, AND ALL THE REST,

FOR AMETHYST WE DID OUR VERY BEST,

OUR LITTLE EPISODE WAS NOT IN VAIN

BUT OH! COSSACK, OH! THE PAIN.

YOUR ADVENTURE “COSSACK” NEVER MENTION

THEY WILL THINK IT IS A PUSSERS INVENTION

SO KEEP IT TO YOUR LITTLE SELF

REMAIN WHERE THEY PUT YOU ON THE SHELF

**********************************************

The verses of ; “HOW COULD YOU” WERE COMPOSED, BY L/S, JOCK BLACK, (BLACKY) FROM GLASGOW, WHO WAS THE LEADING HAND OF NO1 MESS , ON-BOARD H.M.S. CONCORD, 31^st JULY, 1949.