Stranger at Halloween.
Last Halloween night a stranger came to my home
My parents invited him in from his cold nightly roam
I hear them talking as he comes every year
My father distraught my mother in tears
He stays for a while as they chat away
Sometimes they laugh but mostly it's grey
Its hours later as I hear the front door
This stranger has gone just like the years before
I'm older now and as curious as can be
As I follow the stranger down a dark local alley
In the distance I see him to the cemetery he heads
This night of all nights to the place of the dead
Brave as I am to follow him there
Its as far as I go from a distance I'll stare
He disappears into the mist
As I head off home my question is wished
Mum and dad, who was that man
For he comes every year for a chat and a dram
Son, the man who left died so long ago
During World War II at Scapa Flow
He can never rest for his soul is forsaken
For the loss of his colleagues in the war were taken
On October 14, 1939
The crew of his ship In torpedo assign
A German U-Boat, the U-47
Delivered it's load and sent them to heaven
He's a lost lonely soul who stayed in this house
For he always returns to his loving young spouse
It'll be the same story on this Halloween eve
Of this tragic young man and his roaming grieve.
