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Almarin lähetti postia:

Lähetän tämän runon, jonka kuulin, tai sain, radiosähköttäjä Rintala Leeviltä, joka taas oli saanut sen agentilta.
Oli vuosi 1965 ja satama oli Ranskan Rouen. En ole varma olenko muistanut runon pilkulleen oikein. Saa sitä korjailla jos jollakulla on oikea. Minä muistan sen näin: 

For many a year I followed the sea
but nothing unusual happened to me.
Be it Shanghai or Rio it happened each time
We were sailing at midnight with call-back at nine

Take that baby in Hamburg, she really was a Queen
the type which exists only in an old sailors dream.
I had a cash but didn't have a time
We were sailing at midnight with call-back at nine

Then in Yokohama that really was love
she looked like an angel sent down from above.
When she mentioned the boudoir I had to decline
we were sailing at midnight with call-back at nine

I decided to marry that lead a new life
I took one girl and made her my wife.
But on the bed side the fault wasn't mine
We were sailing at midnight with call-back at nine

The years keep passing and I'm growing quite old
the end is in sight and my story is told.
But no one can hold me in that coffin of pine
If we're sailing at midnight with call-back at nine
 

Recollected the poem heard in Rouen 1965 by/Almarin/