Roll Northumbria (Loud Version)

It was late '65 at the old Wallsea Yard

She was commissioned to haul the black tar

We built the Northumbria there on the bar

Roll Northumbria, roll

For when the Egyptians they closed the Red Sea

The call came on high from the powers that be

To build a royal monster right down the quay

Roll Northumbria, roll, me boys

Roll Northumbria, roll

Carpathia, Vengeance, Celestial call

She was the tanker to outsize 'em all

From the banks of the Mersey to the port of Hulal

Roll Northumbria, roll

And fair princess Anne threw a bottle of wine

And watched as the giant set down in the Tyne

What lay ahead could no mortal divine

Roll Northumbria, roll, me boys

Roll Northumbria, roll

And it's one for the hot sun above

Two for the empire we love

And it's three for the fire that burns down below

Roll on Northumbria

Roll Northumbria, roll

So, come all you good workers, beware the command

That comes down on high from the desk of a man

Who's never held steel or torch in his hands

Roll Northumbria, roll

For a top a wild breaker the cracks in her frame

Spilled her black guts all across the wild main

And she limped away through an ocean of flame

Roll Northumbria, roll, me boys

Roll Northumbria, roll

And it's one for the hot sun above

Two for the empire we love

And it's three for the fire that burns down below

Roll on, Northumbria

Roll Northumbria, roll, me boys

Roll on, Northumbria

Roll Northumbria, roll