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The Metal Tyrant of the sea

We’ll bring the South down to its knees

All engines full for ramming speed

Nine plates of iron and blackened steel

From the mind of John Ericsson in 1861

118 days it took to fit her with her guns

To answer the Confederates a fit courageous crew

They launched her to serve Liberty in 1862

The Monitor, the Iron Scourge

The Metal Tyrant of the sea

The Monitor, a slaughterer

Will bring the South down to its knees

The Monitor, the forefather

Of naval combat for the free

The Monitor, a murderer

Engines full for ramming speed!

As she steamed ahead, they set sail for hell

Sinking deep down to the depths, dead sailors never tell

In the battle of Hampton Roads the Merrimack would fight

Only one dared challenge her, they’d battle on this night

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Four hours cannons lighting up the skyline

Neither ship could turn the battle tide

A hit from their cannons and the captain became blind

First Officer Greene took the helm and refused to run and hide

The seas were rough while undertow the waves were crashing high

On New Year’s Eve right off the coast some 16 men would die

She holds today a legacy her history enshrined

The fiercest of the ironclads, a legend of her time

The Monitor, the Iron Scourge

The Metal Tyrant of the sea

The Monitor, a slaughterer

Will bring the South down to its knees

The Monitor, the forefather

Of naval combat for the free

The Monitor, a mariner

Engines full for ramming speed!

The Metal Tyrant of the sea

We’ll bring the South down to its knees

All engines full for ramming speed

Nine plates of iron and blackened steel

The Monitor!

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