[BLUEHAWK]

(From brother Tamaroa)

THE CUTTER

And when she steams into the harbor People don’t flock ‘round like bees; For she ain’t no grim destroyer, No dark terror or the seas. And there ain’t a load of romance To the guy that doesn’t know, When the icy northers blow. But men that sail the ocean In a wormy, rotten craft, When the sea ahead is mountains With a hell-blown gale abaft; When the mainmast cracks and topples And she’s lurching in the trough, Them’s the guys that greet the “Cutter” With the smiles that won’t come off. When the old storm signal’s flyin’, Every vessel seeks a lee, ‘Cept the “Cutter,” which ups anchor And goes ploughing out to sea, When the hurricane’s a-blown’ From the Banks of old Cape Cod Oh, the “Cutter,” with her searchlight, Seems the messenger of God.

Bill Doherty