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On this Halloween night A stranger came to my home My parents invited him in From his cold nightly roam I hear them talking As he comes every year My father distraught My mother in tears He stays for a while As they chat away Sometimes they laugh But, mostly it's grey Its hours later As i hear the front door This stranger has gone Just like the years before I'm older now And as curious as can be As i follow the stranger Down a dark local alley In the distance i see him To the cemetery he heads This night of all nights To the place of the dead Brave as i am To follow him there Its as far as i go From a distance I'll stare He disappears Into the mist As i head off home My question is wished Mum and dad Who was that man He comes every year For a chat and a dram Son, the man who left Died so long ago During World War II At Scapa Flow He can never rest For his soul is forsaken The loss of his colleagues In the war were taken On October 14 1939 The crew of his ship In torpedo assign A German U-Boat The U47 Delivered it's load And sent them to heaven He's a lost lonely soul Who stayed in this house For he always returns To his loving young spouse That's the story On this Halloween eve Of this tragic young man And his roaming grieve http://www.thehighlanderspoems.com/war-5.php
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