32 down on the robert mackensie Songtext / Lyric

32 men on a Great Lake boat
Quit the pier at Thunder Bay
28,000 tons of coal
On a Cold November day
800 feet and ten more long
80 feet across
The steel mills of Detroit
Our destination through the frost

At 2am on the 2nd
Waves were runnin`up to 40 feet
Winds were blowin`60 miles
Our engines crankin`heat
At 3:13 we took a wave
And our wheelhouse left behind
The radar slipped beneath the waves
And we were runnin`blind

Hear me call across the waves
If I don`t come home tonight
I will make it home someday

Chorus:
Steel boats iron men
32 down on the Robert MacKensie
Steel boats iron men
32 down on the robert MacKensie
Steel boats iron men
32 down on the Robert MacKensie

A Captain name of Phillips
Seekin`shelter from the storm
Turned us south to Bet Grise Bay
By way of Keewinah point
But the winds were pushin`at such a rate
We ended up driftin`north
A wave broke over a 9 foot rock
Six fathom Shoal
MacKensie she was cut in half
And the stern she rammed the bow
Men were caught in metal jaws
And flames burned out of hell
Stern kept runnin`all her light`s ablaze
Not one man will be found
Captain`s last transmission read
32 Men down

Hear me call across the waves
If I don`t come home tonight
I will make it home someday

Chorus
Steel boats iron men
32 down on the Robert MacKensie
Steel boats iron men
32 down on the robert MacKensie
Steel boats iron men
32 down on the Robert MacKensie

Hear me call across the waves
If I don`t come home tonight
I will make it home someday