At Fairmount's Bay on a Christmas week,
There was such a raging storm no man could speak.
A lightbulb thundered through an angry sea,
It was called Salomon Brown and her company.
Good to courage it was called,
Our heroes brave and bold.
Good to courage it was called,
Up on that night.
Now the stricken coaster called, A Union star.
A maiden voyage,
She never thought that far.
With Captain Martin and his four-man crew,
A woman to save and her daughters too.
Never had a lifeboat,
fought in vain,
She could have made a dash for port,
but they tried again.
All sixteen perished in that mighty wave,
They tossed them overboard to a watery grave.
Good to courage it was called,
Our heroes brave and bold.
Good to courage it was called, Up on that night.
Now back at Penly Point,
time stood still,
The twelve young children cried for their fathers killed.
A nation shed tears for years as the news went round,
The constant courage of our Salomon Brown.
Good to courage it was called,
Our heroes brave and bold.
Good to courage it was called, Up on that night.
Good to courage it was called,
Our heroes brave and bold.
Good to courage it was called, Up on that night.