Homeward Bound + 

Home, for my heart still calls me; + 

Home, through the danger zone; + 

Home, whatever befalls me, + 

I will sail again to my own! + 

Wolves of the sea are hiding + 

Closely along the way, + 

Under the water biding + 

Their moment to rend and slay. + 

Black is the eagle that brands them, + 

Black are their hearts as the nights + 

Black is the hate that sends them + 

To murder but not to fight. + 

Flower of the German Culture, + 

Boast of the Kaiser’s Marine, + 

Choose for your emblem the vulture, + 

Cowardly, cruel, obscene! + 

Forth from her sheltered haven + 

Our peaceful ship glides slow, + 

Noiseless in flight as a raven, + 

Gray as a hoodie crow. + 

She doubles and turns in her bearing, + 

Like a twisting plover she goes; + 

The way of her westward faring + 

Only the captain knows. + 

In a lonely bay concealing + 

She lingers for days, and slips + 

At dusk from her covert, stealing + 

Thro’ channels feared by the ships. + 

Brave are the men, and steady, + 

Who guide her over the deep⁠— + 

British mariners, ready + 

To face the sea-wolf’s leap. + 

Lord of the winds and waters, + 

Bring our ship to her mark, + 

Safe from this game of hide-and-seek + 

With murderers in the dark! + 