A5 This is the legend of eight sisters, Herald was the famous one F5 C5 E5 It happened twenty years ago although the sea was calm A5 It was 1987 and winter nearly gone F5 C5 E5 On that Friday running late with rolling off and rolling on A5 Trucks and cars were sleeping door by door and side by side F5 Someone had to close the back door C5 E5 That day it must have slipped his mind A5 He was fast asleep in his cabin, tired from cleaning out the hall F5 C5 E5 While passengers were eating, indulging duty-free-for-all F5 G5 C5 Herald of Free Enterprise F5 G5 C5 Herald of Free Enterprise F5 G5 A5 Herald of Free Enterprise F5 G5 C5 In just ninety seconds, right down to the wire A5 Sailing with the doors wide open so the waves kept pouring in F5 C5 E5 As they passed the Outer Mole the disaster could begin A5 A hundred yards from the shore right outside a Belgian port F5 C5 E5 The lights went out the ship turned around and fell to starboard A5 Then nothing but silence, silence and the cold F5 C5 E5 Herald and her sisters never fit the mold F5 G5 C5 Herald of Free Enterprise F5 G5 C5 Herald of Free Enterprise F5 G5 A5 Herald of Free Enterprise F5 G5 C5 In just ninety seconds, right down to the wire A5 Two months later she was refloated a final one-way trip exchange F5 C5 E5 Pensioned off into the Thirld World where they named her Flushing Range A5 But in ?88 she broke in two, probably because of guilt F5 Pride and Spirit changed their names C5 E5 They were all doomed since they were built F5 G5 C5 Herald of Free Enterprise F5 G5 C5 Herald of Free Enterprise F5 G5 A5 Herald of Free Enterprise F5 G5 C5 In just ninety seconds, right down to the wire A5 This is the legend of eight sisters, Herald was the famous one F5 C5 E5 It happened twenty years ago although the sea was calm A5 I was just a boy then, holding daddy?s hands F5 C5 E5 Watching on tv how Herald?s time came to an end
