https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTtl9WGTsIg
The lines of the song :
Grandpa, look I found in the attic
A photo of an old boat
Is that from before the war?
From that old fishing fleet
Boy, that's lucky
I lost that picture for years
I now have a very small piece again
From those good old days
There is the water, there is the harbour
Where you could always hear: We're going on board
The driver is now trotting horses
And on the horizon lies Emmeloord
Once the sea raged here
But that time will not come again
Zuiderzee is now called IJsselmeer
A tractor is now digging ditches
I can't see any ships on the horizon
Look, that young man is me
Yes, I was the captain
Here, and the big fat one
Yes, that must be Malle Japie
Grandpa, and that blond boy
In front of the jib sheet
Grandpa, say something
that boy...
is your uncle, he is dead
In the deep water, far from the harbour
On that November night, for twenty years
He was buried by the brackish water
If I wait a little longer, we'll see each other
Then the sea went berserk
In a furious defense
No one knocks her down with impunity
Now years later horses trot here
I see the hand and might of our Lord
Where is the water, where is the harbour?
Where you could always hear: We're going on board
The driver lets his horses trot there
And on the horizon lies Emmeloord
Once the sea raged here
But that time will not come again
The water is now behind the dike
Where once the waves buried the land
Waves now a sea of blades, the harvest is ripe
Ian