Searching for the best break the black forties could afford them Came these ever proud, world renowned, rowdy, roving men With a firmness and a purpose that so many did dismiss Sailed these huddled human ballasts on their stinking coffin ships
From the prison of their lonely hearts they labored long and hard Of all needy, down trodden, rough and rowdy sons Working eighteen hour days for the B.A.C, the B.A.C
Intelligent, respectable, but made of modest means With an independent spirit, so full of hopes and dreams Opportunity denied them in a doomed and starving land Came these openhearted kindly spirits of truly threatened man
From the prison of their lonely hearts they labored long and hard Of all needy, down trodden, [incomprehensible] Working eighteen hour days for the B.A.C, the B.A.C
Searching for the best break the black forties could afford them Came these ever proud, world renowned, rowdy, roving men With a firmness and a purpose that so many did dismiss Sailed these huddled human ballasts on their stinking coffin ships
From the prison of their lonely hearts they labored long and hard Of all needy, down trodden, [incomprehensible] Working eighteen hour days for the B.A.C, the B.A.C The B.A.C, the B.A.C