Mornington Football Boating Disaster, 1892 Lyrics

Well the news came down the avenues

It's a catastrophe

Our boys left Mordi just after 5:30 and they haven't since been seen

Somebody wake their families

I think of all those handsome boys and all the things they could have done

And all the lives they would have led and all the games they should have won

And can't this ship move any faster?

Mornington football boating disaster

My mother watched and waited on the shoreline

I've never seen that look on her face

She said, "You can set your sails, son, but it doesn't mean the winds will change"

Then she said, "Why couldn't they just take the train?"

The cream of the seaside crop are sleeping on the ocean floor

I'd turn to heaven above for help but the reverend had three sons on board

Poseidon is s cricket fan, or maybe he's a bastard

Mornington football boating disaster

I think of all those handsome boys and all the things they could have done

And all the lives they would have led and all the games they should have won

And can't this ship move any faster?

Mornington football boating disaster