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Hands of Steel
The story of Alfred James Perring of Wembury, a cabinet maker conscripted in WW1, wounded at Cambrai, who returned to work at the Dockyard and raise a family before his early death in 1940. A tribute to craft, war, and legacy.
Verse 1
Snowden’s bench, steady hand
War came down, took the band
Chorus
Hands of steel, the price to pay
Work to war, night to day
Rise again, the voices say
Till the day breaks, shadows flee away
Verse 2
Cambrai mud, fire and rain
Wounded once, back again
Chorus
Hands of steel, the price to pay
Work to war, night to day
Rise again, the voices say
Till the day breaks, shadows flee away
Verse 3
Dockyard gates, Evelyn’s call
Children’s laughter through it all
Chorus
Hands of steel, the price to pay
Work to war, night to day
Rise again, the voices say
Till the day breaks, shadows flee away
Verse 4
Fifty-four, laid to rest
Stone in Wembury tells the rest
Final Chorus
Hands of steel, the price to pay
Work to war, night to day
Rise again, the voices say
Till the day breaks, shadows flee away