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Pedro

Posted 2018-08-25 4:55 PM (#90037)

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Subject: Sundays Song's

Another potluck collection of old hits this week. The last track here reminded me of the funeral of a shipmate, Dave (The Finn), Findlay, a few years back. We had all been informed of the time 1400 and the place of the service and lots of submariners turned up suitably booted and spurred to pay our last respects. Upon our arrival, we got lots of strange looks from the people already present who seemed perplexed by all the medals and branch standards being displayed. Once it got started, it didn't take long to realise we were at the wrong funeral. This was for an elderly lady who had been a lifelong activist for CND, the ban-the-bomb movement, and the scrapping of our Polaris and Trident policies.

For us to have withdrawn en masse would have disrupted the whole service so rather than cause any further offence we stayed until the end. Once outside the chapel, we saw Dave's cortège arriving at its correct time of 1500. It appears that some relative had got mixed up with the times when informing all hands, but at least gave us the right venue. So we all trooped back inside for the second time. The Finn's coffin draped with the White Ensign and a Jolly Roger was carried out at the end of the service to Dino's laid-back tones singing "Little Old Wine Drinker Me". The Finn would have been highly amused at that screw up of our last farewell.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=phCX0E8avxs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RN3exiuyQJc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qqg7EU-VGvw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdM9HDI33AY

Pedro

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Posted 2018-08-25 6:54 PM (#90039 - in reply to #90037)

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Location: East Coast of Wisconsin

Subject: RE: Sundays Song's

Thanks, Pedro. All are goodies.

Bob Mahon

Posted 2018-08-26 9:03 PM (#90044 - in reply to #90037)

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Location: Milford, PA

Subject: RE: Sundays Song's

Thanks, Mate.
All are so very good.
I especially like Dean Martin's version (BTDT).

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