Songs from the Sea (C) YEYC voyage 16/07: RED WATCH READY!!! (READY IN 5) The First ‘Wakie Wakie’ To the Tune of … “The holy Grail” by the hunters and collectors (as remembered by Silver 11 days later) I woke up this morning from the strangest dream. I was on the greatest tall-ship that Australia had ever seen. We were sailing along on the road to Hobart town. Added verse after the event: Well have you heard about the Sydney to Hobart? An event in which many would die to be apart The infamous waters where storms abound everyday All those would be heroes just trying to make their way To Hobart Town We were full of ...

Mother Said I was born wicked-page 1: So much anguish and labour she said my firstborn son almost left me dead, oh what excruciating pains and sorrow but I pushed you out like no tomorrow. Yes, it was at dawn that I was born delivered by the district nurse that morn, as my mother laid on her back in the shack screaming out from contraction attack. Father, like typical men of old were never present at births i'm told, “ME JUST WANT TO HEAR DE BABY CRYING, DEN ME KNOW DAT EVERYTING IS FINE” while mum was inside at the point of breaking dad just stood outside the shack waiting. Wednesday the 26th of august 1953 was the...

mother said I was born wicked-page 39: BUT SATURDAY AT HOME WAS A CLEANING DAY MOPPING FLOORS AND POLISHING FOR HOURS, AND ON SUNDAY THE CYCLE STARTED AGAIN WHEN WE WERE COLLECTED BY THE MAN, COME RAIN OR SHINE, HE WAS ALWAYS ON TIME IN HIS LAND-ROVER OR TRANSIT VAN, THEY MOVED ME TO A SCHOOL CALLED TURNEY BECAUSE I WAS CLASSED AS BACKWARD, THE CHANGE THEY SAID WOULD DO ME GOOD IF I EVER WANTED TO GO FORWARD, IN THOSE DAYS IT WAS HARD FOR BLACK PEOPLE WHO NEVER REALLY HAD THE CHOICE, ABOUT WHICH SCHOOLS TO SEND THEIR CHILDREN SO MOTHER LISTENED TO THE ENGLISH MANS VOICE, THE SCHOOL THAT THEY SENT ME WAS FULL OF KIDS...