Paen of an Asia Sailor

By Garland Davis

I could carry, work, and tell stories with any man I ever saw.

I have been twenty-four years a Chief, and forty-one years an Asia Sailor;

No deployment was ever too long for me,

I have saved the lives of sailors and others.

I have had hundreds of girlfriends and a wife.

I spent l my money on drinks and pleasure of the girls.

Were I young again, I would spend my life the same way over.

There is no life so happy as an Asia Sailor’s life.