Underneath the Surface

(Tune: Underneath the Arches)

Big ships we never cared for,
Destroyers they can keep.
There's only one place that we know,
that is deep down deep

(chorus)
Underneath the surface
We dream our dreams away,
underneath the surface,
On battery-boards we lay.

There you'll always find us
Tired out and worn,
Waiting for the Coxswain to wake us
With the sound of the Klaxon horn,

Then we all get busy,
The Tiffies and the 'Swains'
Working vents and blows and hydroplanes
And when the panic's over

We'll get it down again,
underneath the surface
We dream our dreams away.