The Battle of Midway

Verse 1

Nineteen forty-two the war was going wrong

Pacific wide and I was young and green

Joined the Navy on my daddy's farm

Signed my name without a second thought

Pre-Chorus

Deck plates humming underneath my boots

Radar screen a ghost across the blue

Word came down the order was to hold

That June sky about to turn to gold

Chorus

I was there at Midway when the dawn broke red

Watching Dauntless dive through the smoke and lead

Gave my all for carry-ers burning on the sea

That island sand is still a part of me

At Midway I stood my ground and prayed

For every boy they sent into that wave

Verse 2

Torpedo bombers low against the swell

Japanese guns roaring out their hell

We lost so many brothers in the spray

But we bought the time to turn the tide that day

Pre-Chorus

Fuel lines burning through the morning haze

Through the flak and fire we kept our gaze

Three carry-ers found by fate and flame

And the whole world whispered out our name

Chorus

I was there at Midway when the dawn broke red

Watching Dauntless dive through the smoke and lead

Gave my all for carry-ers burning on the sea

That island sand is still a part of me

At Midway I stood my ground and prayed

For every boy they sent into that wave

Bridge

The ocean keeps the wreckage and the names

But freedom's tide came back across the plain

I tell my grandson now how it went down

How one sunrise turned the war around

Chorus

I was there at Midway when the dawn broke red

Watching Dauntless dive through the smoke and lead

Gave my all for carry-ers burning on the sea

That island sand is still a part of me

At Midway I stood my ground and prayed

For every boy they sent into that wave