Fighting Lady

this song is about a lady that served our nation well.
Time and time again she stood her ground.
A mother on a mission sailing around the world, she fought to keep her children away from harm.
Three lives and sailing stronger she fought for many years, her duty to her country she would not fail.
Torpedoes kept on coming and wounded she fell.
Ballard found her with Neptune resting one league down.

She's the USS Yorktown, you better lay down your arms.
A mother of our nation, even Midway couldn't keep her down.
Salute the Fighting Lady, her spririt lives on and on.

Christened in '37 and again in '43, Eleanor cracked the bottle with a single swing. From chasing down slave ships and saving the hunted seal.
She was born in battle and fought in the Second World War.

She's the USS Yorktown, you better lay down your arms.
A mother of our nation, even Midway couldn't keep her down.
Salute the Fighting Lady, her spririt lives on and on.

She was there to meet Neil Armstrong in the summer of '69,
on her 200th birthday she wore a new keel.
A top gun and an Old Crow, she makes her way ashore,
on a mighty wind and a double hurricane.

She's the USS Yorktown, you better lay down your arms.
A mother of our nation, even Midway couldn't keep her down.
Salute the Fighting Lady, her spririt lives on and on.