Roll Northumbria - Loud Version

[00:24.64] It was late '65 at the old Wallsea Yard
[00:28.50] She was commissioned to haul the black tar
[00:31.68] We built the Northumbria there on the bar
[00:34.97] Roll Northumbria, roll
[00:37.92] For when the Egyptians they closed the Red Sea
[00:41.63] The call came on high from the powers that be
[00:44.92] To build a royal monster right down the quay
[00:48.21] Roll Northumbria, roll, me boys
[00:51.49] Roll Northumbria, roll
[00:56.11] Carpathia, Vengeance, Celestial call
[00:59.63] She was the tanker to outsize 'em all
[01:02.87] From the banks of the Mersey to the port of Hulal
[01:06.35] Roll Northumbria, roll
[01:09.32] And fair princess Anne threw a bottle of wine
[01:12.72] And watched as the giant set down in the Tyne
[01:16.09] What lay ahead could no mortal divine
[01:19.69] Roll Northumbria, roll, me boys
[01:22.80] Roll Northumbria, roll
[01:27.63] And it's one for the hot sun above
[01:31.16] Two for the empire we love
[01:34.26] And it's three for the fire that burns down below
[01:37.79] Roll on Northumbria
[01:41.12] Roll Northumbria, roll
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[02:21.88] So, come all you good workers, beware the command
[02:25.48] That comes down on high from the desk of a man
[02:28.66] Who's never held steel or torch in his hands
[02:32.33] Roll Northumbria, roll
[02:35.03] For a top a wild breaker the cracks in her frame
[02:38.74] Spilled her black guts all across the wild main
[02:41.87] And she limped away through an ocean of flame
[02:45.45] Roll Northumbria, roll, me boys
[02:48.79] Roll Northumbria, roll
[02:53.38] And it's one for the hot sun above
[02:57.13] Two for the empire we love
[02:59.76] And it's three for the fire that burns down below
[03:03.50] Roll on, Northumbria
[03:06.77] Roll Northumbria, roll, me boys
[03:10.18] Roll on, Northumbria
[03:13.51] Roll Northumbria, roll
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