By: Author Unknown.

Just across the ocean,
It’s just a little spot.
Where we’re doomed too spend our time,
In the land that God forgot.

Down with the gooney and boatswain bird,
We are gallant men in blue.
Right in the middle of nowhere,
Six thousand miles from you.

Swab’s of the Seventh Fleet,
We dream of a lovely miss.
Oh too hold her in our arms again,
Just to get a treasured kiss.

There in the cold and there in the heat,
Our boots are filled with sand.
Yet we’re not classified as convicts,
But defenders of our land.

No one knows were living,
And no one gives a damn.
At home we’re soon forgotten,
Cause we belong to Uncle Sam.

The time we spend on Midway,
Is the time we’ll never miss.
So let the draft get you boys,
For gods sake don’t enlist.

But when those pearly gates,
Come into a sailors view.
Our frowns will turn to laughter,
For the joke will be on you.

For once inside of Heaven,
You’ll hear St. Peter Yell.
Fall out you men from Midway
You’ve spent your time in Hell.
 

By Edgar Guest

They came with thirty ships or more,
A proud and pagan Fleet.
But lads, in school a year before,
Went out their best to meet.

Brave boys of last year’s football squad,
Or last year’s baseball nine.
Went forth upon the side of god,
To hold his battle line.

They came at dawn; by noon had fled,
But freedom’s sons fought on:
They followed, fighting overhead
Till every shell was gone.

Ship after ship went down in flames
Beneath the Crimson sea,
Or turned with bent and twisted frames
From freedom’s blows to flee.

From Midway fled the stricken foe,
Driven back, may time recall,
By boys in school a year ago,
But heroes, one and all.
 

US Chapel 1953

By: Daniel Grande

They fought
They died
They'll be remembered
They fought for freedom
Justice
And right
For they fought at
Midway Isle.

They fought
For all we have stood for
They fought
For you and me
They fought
To end pain and suffering
For they fought at
Midway Isle.

They died
For the future
They died
For the past
They died
To end pain and suffering
For they died at
Midway Isle.

They'll be remembered
Forever in our hearts
They'll be remembered
For their daring deeds
They'll be remembered
For their fight for you and me
For they'll be remembered at
Midway Isle.

Midway from 30,000miles up

Sunrise on Midway Island

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