"This will be our home me boys So I trust you'll treat her right." Twas how the captain speech began Each voyages first night He smiled said its tradition But I asked that you refrain From carving your name in the beam Next to her lofty mane The first night I was there Her manes held me in the air And let me carve my name with theirs To show that I was there From Port of man we grew up as Across the waves we bound As she heard me soft like sons who'd lost their childhood home Eight bells rang out in Dover Eight bells rang out in Wales Eight bells rang out in Liverpool And Down to Murphy's scales Eight bells rang out in Port Royale Eight bells rang out in Boston town Eight bells rang out in Nassau The night the merry Widow went down As a merriman's ship was made (?) I stare up at that beam And knew that every name I saw Was shared between a dream Some of them so faded just a memory and a scratch But they grew much clearer with every new batch She made sure we made it back To the lands we blown And with the tide we all return to the vessel we call home There were parts we could have salvaged but I think we all agreed That she deserved the honor of a burial at sea Eight bells rang out in Dover Eight bells rang out in Wales Eight Bells rang out in Liverpool And down to murphy's scales Eight bells rang out in Port Royale Eight bells rang out in Boston town Eight bells rang out in Nassau The night the Merry Widow went down By the time I was the bos'n, the list was 3 yards long Though she had seen so many years, she still stood tall and strong But the name she took her spirit Bold and strong and true And she raced the wind and never failed her craven loyal crew The ship she never found her Defenses never breached No matter her port of call her goal was always reached When we were told her day had come and she had sailed her last That they were tear her down for scrap We couldn't let that pass Eight bells rang out in Dover Eight bells rang out in Wales Eight Bells rang out in Liverpool And down to murphy's scales Eight bells rang out in Port Royale Eight bells rang out in Boston town Eight bells rang out in Nassau The night the merry Widow went down Through our grief we'd swore an oath That we'd carry out our plan And damn the rest we would push on to the strength of our last man And as we stared at all the names of those that came before We cut the line and stole that ship and sailed around once more Beyond the reef we sailed her And set our love alight We jumped ship and watched her burn from the shore that night As she sank beneath the waves, we knew one thing for sure She made more of a mark on us Than we ever did on her Eight bells rang out in Dover Eight bells rang out in Wales Eight Bells rang out in Liverpool And down to murphy's scales Eight bells rang out in Port Royale Eight bells rang out in Boston town Eight bells rang out in Nassau The night the Merry Widow went down Eight bells rang out... Eight bells rang out... The night the merry Widow went down The night the merry Widow went down