Run on the Banks

When I came home from the Anzio shore
 I got me a job at a Shiretown store
 I married up quick, we had the one son
 My limit was hit and my race was run
 We raised him right and we put him through school
 With a gentle embrace and an iron rule
 Our world was shattered when we lost our son
 To the business end of a gangster's gun
 How do you go from the Bernhardt Line
 To chasing anonymous ships in the night?
 How do you live with a lingering ghost?
 With a run on the banks
 With a run on the banks
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 When they buried my boy of 22 years
 I swore I'd do more than choke on my tears
 So I hardened up my heart, I took up the oath
 And looked for ways to avenge us both
 Me and his mother, we never were the same
 She left me one spring and I am to blame
 I forgot about living, forgot about her
 Forgot about love and the way things were
 How do you go from the Bernhardt Line
 To chasing anonymous ships in the night?
 How do you live with a lingering ghost?
 With a run on the banks
 With a run on the banks
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 Sixteen guns, 25 kilos
 A couple thousand rounds when we run her aground
 The crew bailed out and headed for the hills
 With a barrel of blow and a mountain of pills
 No arrest in her majesty's waters
 No victory for the mothers and fathers
 Of the young and the damned
 The guilty walk free to continue their trade on a cruel black sea
 How do you go from the Bernhardt Line
 To chasing anonymous ships in the night?
 How do you live with a lingering ghost?
 With a run on the banks
 With a run on the banks