Seventy-three men sailed up
From the Illinois-Michigan Canal,
Rolled off of their ship
And here’s what they had to say.

“We’re callin’ everyone to ride along To another shore,
We can laugh our lives away
and be free once more.”

But no one heard them callin’,
No one came at all,
‘Cause they were too busy watchin’
Those old raindrops fall.

As a storm was blowin’
Out on the peaceful sea,
Seventy-three men sailed off
To history.