The Ballad of the Skipjack (SSN585)
	On the 8th of March in '59, a date we remember well, The Skipjack was ready to go to sea, she was ready to answer all bells. At zero nine hundred she got underway, for new frontiers there to seek. A new submarine set sail that day, to face the perils of the deep. So here's to the crew of the finest sub, that ever made a deep dive. All are proud to be aboard, the SSN Five Eighty Five. And here's to the families and loved ones at home, who wait so patiently. Always hoping that they can understand, they're out there to keep this country free. And now she's ready to make her first dive, to see what lies below. Her mighty reactor has come alive, her crew is ready to go. Dive said the Captain and down she went, in her hull they heard creaks and groans. Down from the surface from where she was sent, she held reveille on ole' Davy Jones. She began her first dive, and plunged to the depths, in an ocean both vast and blue. She went faster and deeper than all those before, and history was made by her crew. She passed this first test and started to rise, from the dangers that lurked below. Back to the surface from where she was sent, she was ready to face any foe. So here's to the crew of the finest sub, that ever made a deep dive. All are proud to be aboard, the SSN Five Eighty Five. And here's to the families and loved ones at home, who wait so patiently. Always hoping that they can understand, they're out there to keep this country free. So come here my friends and gather round, this story I've told you is true. And now you ask me how do I know, well I'm a part of her crew. So all you surface skimmers beware, she serves her country well. And if you hear her below you had better run because she will really give you hell. So here's to the crew of the finest sub, that ever made a deep dive. All are proud to be aboard, the SSN Five Eighty Five. And here's to the families and loved ones at home, who wait so patiently. Always hoping that they can understand, they're out there to keep this country free.
	Tim Moore RM2(SS) 1964