Show IN TUE SOUTH PACIFIC I. He slugged it out unto the end This slam-bang fighting man A from way back Was Dan J. There In the black and bloody night He helped to blast the An admiral all-out to win Who died in doing sot The Jap armada on the Outnumbering our Came out to strike a telling blow sneaky of It by all the laws of A prospect more than fair For victory except that men Like Callaghan were therel Bill was the battle chief Another scrappy Two Irishmen were topside As soon the Charlies The Japs were physically strong But mentally not sharp They should have known no Nipponese Could ever trim a The foe bore down from ville Our lesser force to It met Halsey and Callaghan And soon bore back Two lads Were never in one fleet As Nippon found when such as they Got word on the V. The foe's cry to victory Soon changed to threw As Callaghan tore in between Their lines in They thought all hell had broken loose And saw a new type war When Dannie Callaghan let go A few swings from the going some Togo cried As deadly wallops another one I am And groggy was the word for It For soon the Were panicked to a point where they Were blasting their own They'd looked for that fleet And how were they to know One-ocean fleets were plenty with Two Celts to run the But well they know about it now And mark this Our Navy has a new job now Avenge Dan there were other heroes None more than Callaghan Would understate what he had done And praise some other But no one's place In history Can be much more secure For he died on the fighting bridge To make the triumph |