J. Dale Walker - The Franklin Expedition

from Round 31, Week 3 by Monday Morning 3AM Music Club

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Well...this got outta hand.

From Wikipedia: "Franklin's lost expedition was a British voyage of Arctic exploration led by Captain Sir John Franklin that departed from England in 1845 aboard two ships, HMS Erebus and HMS Terror, and was assigned to traverse the last unnavigated sections of the Northwest Passage in the Canadian Arctic."

They failed, and there's evidence they resorted to cannibalism to survive (teeth marks on the bones). Weird story. Regarding the track, I don't know how it ended up sounding like this...but it's too late for me to try to make it different at this point. I had a bunch to do this week so this is all really 11th hour.

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Seafaring wastrels collided with wind
The icebreaker moored on its side
Navy men, iron, and cold blooded pride
No routes to be found, a dead end

Springtime from England they left home behind
A sunrise in May ’45
Lost near King William the Erebus tried
Trapped in endless ice flying blind

Last seen at Baffin Bay in late July
They made their way to their demise
HMS Terror and Erebus lies
Near Victory Point in the ice

Hungry and cold they left notes for their wives
And set on their way to mainland
Cold and the endless stretch of rock and sand
The wintertime brandished her knives

Snow did they bury and madness survive
The ugliest natures within
Marks on their bones oh what stories they spin
The lengths of the lost and deprived

Seafaring wastrels collided with wind
The icebreaker moored on its side
Navy men, iron, and cold blooded pride
No routes to be found, a dead end

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from Round 31, Week 3, released March 1, 2021

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