The Sinking of the Reuben James

Pete Seeger

Gazette, Vol. 1

Pete Seeger

1958

the forty-four
From the cold ocean waters and the cold icy shore.

It was there in the dark of that uncertain night
That we watched for the U-boats and waited

Sinking of the Reuben James

Cisco Houston

Cisco Houston Sings the Songs of Woody Guthrie

Cisco Houston

1963

we watched for the U-boats
And we waited for a fight.
Then a whine and a rock
And a great explosion roared
And they laid the Reuben James
On that

Paddy McGinty's Goat

Ennis Sisters

Can't Be the Same

Ennis Sisters

2003

as a whale
Swam around the U-boat waggin' his little tail
He upped with his horns and he stuck them in the boat
And sent the Hun to Heligoland did Paddy