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