Thoughts of Scarborough (from Canada 1942)

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Thoughts of Scarborough
(from Canada 1942)

By
Jean Allison Dickinson

Are there bacon and eggs for tea, Mum?
Do you ever think of me?
While the bombs keep coming down,
Searchlights shining above the town.

I’m seven thousand miles away —
Its not just across the bay,
The bay with sea and sand and shrimps,
There’s nothing like that over here,
They don’t even have old-fashioned beer.

Soon I’ll qualify for my wings
Then I’ll be amongst the Kings
Soaring in the sky at night
‘Neath the stars shining bright.

Set the table now for tea Mum,
Light the lamp and mash the tea,
Soon I’ll be there to join you,
Flying high o’er land and sea.

(Many of our young lads were sent over to Canada to learn to fly, where there was no risk of enemy action. The Queen Elizabeth I, and Queen Mary were stripped of all their beautiful fittings in order to accommodate thousands of troops. Hammocks were strung up in the swimming pool, while a shift system for meals was set up. There was a great danger from enemy submarines, and after ditching rubbish, the ship had to maintain a zig-zag course until the rubbish had dispersed).

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