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Lyrics for Wake Island by Unknown:
| | | Artist: | Unknown |
| | Album: | Unknown | | Track: | Wake Island | | | | Date Added: | 18/10/2007 | | Views: | 150 | | | | Lyrics: | WAKE ISLAND
December the seventh we heard about Pearl,
We knew we'd be next on the
list.
The men of our Corps four fifty no more
All swore to the death to
resist.
Cho: Wake Island, Wake Island,
It's not even marked on the map
Our Corps raised her name into honor and fame
When they stopped the advance of the
Japs.
Cut off from supplies with no hope of aid
We sighted the first
Japanese,
With thousands of troops and a task force of ships
They thought they could take
us with ease.
They sent in their subs, their ships and their planes
They shelled us
by day and by night,
Surrender they said, we laughed at their threats
We're only beginning
to fight.
Our four hundred fifty cost six thousand Japs
Our fighters downed twenty
eight planes,
We sank two destroyers and one submarine
Six others got shelled for their
pains.
Our plan was to fight to the very last man
But Deveraux gave this
command,
There's a thousand civilians I can't sacrifice
We'll have to surrender our
band.
As we lay down our arms on the twenty third day
The Japs cheered the news of
defeat.
But they could not believe a few crummy Marines
Had stopped the whole Japanese
fleet.
From "Tell it to the Marines", Oscar Brand
@war @America @WWII
@Marine
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