A Sailors Prayer WWII Real Photo Postcard

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A Sailors Prayer WWII Real Photo Postcard Back

A Sailors Prayer - WWII Navy - RPPC, c.1940s

$4.50

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Tags: 1940s EKC Great Lakes IL Illinois Lord's Prayer Nautical Navy Novelty RPPC Now I Lay Me Down To Sleep Photo Photograph Poem Postcard Prayer Real Photo Postcard RPPC Sailor Sailor's Prayer Sleep Sleeping Vintage Vintage Photo Vintage Photograph World War 2 WW2 WWII

(5 1/2 x 3 1/2 In) This is an original vintage EKC real photo postcard from the 1940s. It shows a WWII sailor laying in his bunk, "A SAILORS PRAYER".

"A SAILORS PRAYER -

Now I lay me down to sleep

I pray the Lord my Soul to keep

Grant no other sailor take

My shoes and socks before I wake

Lord guard me in my slumber

And keep my hammock on its number

May no clues nor lashings break

And let me down before I wake

Keep me safely in the sight

And grant no fire drill tonight

And in the morning let me wake

Breathing scents of sirloin steak

God protect me in my dreams

And make this better than it seems

Grant the time may swiftly fly

When myself shall rest on high

In a snowy feather bed

Where I long to rest my head.

Far away from all these scenes

And the smell of half done beans

Take me back to the land

Where they don't scrub down with sand

Where no demon typhoon blows

Where the women wash the clothes

God thou knowest all my woes

Feed me in my dying thoes

Take me back I'll promise then

Never to leave home again

FOUR YEARS LATER ***

Our Father who art in Washington

Please dear Father let me stay

Do not drive me now away

Wipe away my scalding tears

And let me stay for Thirty years

Please forgive me all my past

And things that happened at the mast

Do not my request refuse

And let me stay another cruise"

"Wm. Q. Harman A.S. - Barks 608 E-11-3 U. S. N. Ser. School - Great Lakes, ILL. - Hello Harry - Just a line to let you know I'm in the navy. Mom gave me your address while I was on my furlough. Drop me a line if you get a chance. The folks are still in Aligruppa. Bill.", reads the note written on the back.

The postcard is used and is in GOOD condition, wear at the edges, blunted corner tips, general stains and creases, heavy crease at upper left corner.

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A Sailors Prayer - WWII Navy - RPPC, c.1940s

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