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Tony Norwell
Miscellaneous
The Day The Bywell Castle
The Day The Bywell Castle Cut The Princess Alice Down
The day the âBywell Castleâ cut the âPrincess Aliceâ down â
Six hundred people died that day â six hundred people drowned.
Because of one mistake that anyone could make â.
On the day the âBywell Castleâ cut the âPrincess Aliceâ down.
How many people saved and scraped in every little way â
For a short release from the misery they suffered every day?
A day on the River to Sheerness then back home again â
On the day the âBywell Castleâ steamed the âPrincess Aliceâ way.
And now all the little children who were on that ship and who â
Trusted all the adults â just as little children do â
Mostly lie in a Woolwich grave covered oâer with stone â
From the day the âBywell Castleâ cut the âPrincess Aliceâ through.
How could such a tragedy happen then or now?
In a perfect system could it happen still somehow?
If the world were run the way that most of us would choose â
Thereâs no way the âBywell Castleâ could touch the âPrincess Aliceâ now.