Searching for the best break the black forties could afford them
came these ever-proud world-renowned rowdy, roving men
with a firmness and a purpose that so many did dismiss
sailed these huddled human ballasts on their stinking coffin ships
from the prison of their lonely hearts they labored long and hard
working 18+hour days for the b.a.c.
Intelligent,
respectable,
but made of modest means with an independent spirit, so full of hopes and dreams
opportunity denied them in a doomed and starving land
came these openhearted kindly spirits of a truly threatened man