ok... its haiku day.. i know it aint no haiku.... but i hope you all enjoy it...
Going home to Bremerhaven It’s been 90 years almost, Since that cold rainy spring day The little u-boat pulled away from the shore, And I left my wife and baby by the side Crying together in time Saying don’t go nicht gehen daddy Good-bye, good-bye Auf weidersehen nicht gehen vati And the boat pulled away So sad a day I am going home to Bremerhaven Almost 90 years to the day Home to the hause Where they waited for days For a life time When daddy never came home again Home to Bremerhaven Now in the sunshine, a beautiful new day Home to Bremerhaven Home to see the graves of meine liebchen and meine kinder The little boat rolled out into the sea, Three weeks it was supposed to be, Passing Jutland first Then into the darkened see On patrol off the Orkney islands Outside famous Scapa Flow Home of the British Navy Only 10 days had passed When the three destroyers came Billowing black smoke behind Rocking so evilly Searching for us so merrily Throwing depth charges in the sea Chasing us into the deep We rolled and prayed And cried and prayed For 2 long days They chased us north around the coast Bombing us again and again The little boat bobbed and swayed And grown men cried and prayed As we rolled and swayed Deep in the North Sea No home coming for me And meine frau she knew She could feel the pain On that sad day too When finally the little boat cracked And started to die The cold water rushing in And men screaming and dying, all crying The red lights dying one by one The boys in the front compartment Went first, the cracked hull there was worst The boys in the conn Screaming mutti mutti Gott in himmel helfe mir bitte bitte The first officer looked at me With a sad wistful smile And said Ich liebe dich, mein freund And we then died As the cold water filled the iron coffin And drifted to the bottom of the sea For all eternity My frau She never smiled again She new instantly Of our sad painful freezing death Lucky for her it wasn’t long to end No food to eat No life to lead Only bitterness and sorrow When the influenza came And killed them both the same And they laid them deep In a grave by the sea In Bremerhaven on the see Somewhere in the cold North Sea Daddy’s been resting comfortably On the bottom of the sea Playing pinochle with the unter offizers And listening to the little 78 Waiting for the time When all souls go home again To see the loves they left Standing in the rain By the dockside grey Or by some miracle Find a empty soul to borrow And go back home again And bring this sadness to an end And the wife and child are waiting So very patiently For vati to come home again To come and see The grave in which they lay For so many lonely days All alone by the see Waiting so patiently For me I’m going home to Bremerhaven Ill finally get to see Just one more time The frau I had there And the little girl So blonde and fair Bows so fine in her hair And smile so sweet It made the sun shine Home to Bremerhaven To the back of the graveyard for the Kreigsmarine By a small gravestone covered in ivy And there ill get to see My little girl just once again One final time For me... See her smile again And mutti standing by her side Home to Bremerhaven One final time Home to Bremerhaven One god sent time. Home to Bremerhaven
