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08/12/2009

Commemorating the Broughty Ferry Lifeboat Disaster - Tuesday, 8 December 1959

The Lifeboat Mona
(Peggy Seeger)


Chorus:

Remember December of fifty-nine

The howling wind and driving rain

Remember the gallant men who drowned

On the lifeboat, Mona was her name


The wind did blow and the sea rose up

Beat the land with mighty waves

At Saint Andrew's Bay the light ship fought

The sea until her moorings gave


The captain signalled to the shore

"We must have help or we'll go down"
From (Broughty) Ferry at two a.m.

They sent the lifeboat Mona


Eight men formed that gallant crew

They set their boat against the main

The wind's so hard and the sea's so rough

We'll never see land or home again


Three hours went by and the Mona called
The wind blows hard and the sea runs high

In the morning on (Carnoustie) Beach

The Mona and her crew did lie


Five lay drowned in the (Chalon) there

Two were washed up on the shore

Eight men died when the boat capsized

And the (eighth) is lost forever more


Remember December of fifty-nine

The howling wind and the driving rain

The men who leave the land behind

And the men who never see land again