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THE FLOWERS OF MANCHESTER One cold and bitter Thursday in Munich Germany Eight great football stalwarts conceded victory Eight men will never play again who met destruction there The Flowers of English football the Flowers of Manchester Matt Busby’s boys were flying home returning from Belgrade This great United family all masters of their trade The pilot of the aircraft the skipper Captain Thain Three times they tried to take off and twice turned back again The third time down the runway disaster followed close There was slush upon that runaway and the aircraft never rose It ploughed into the marshy ground it broke it overturned And eight of the team were killed as the blazing wreckage burned Roger Byrne and Tommy Taylor who were capped for England’s side And Ireland’s Billy Whelan and England’s Geoff Bent died Mark Jones and Eddie Colman and David Pegg also They all lost their lives as it ploughed on through the snow Big Duncan he went too with an injury to his brain And Ireland’s brave Jack Blanchflower will never play again The great Matt Busby lay there the father of his team Three long months passed by before he saw his team again The trainer, coach and secretary and a member of the crew Also eight sporting journalists who with United flew and one of them Big Swifty who we will ne’er forget the finest English ‘keeper that ever graced the net Oh England’s finest football team its record truly great its proud successes mocked by a cruel turn of fate Eight men will never play again who met destruction there the Flowers of English football the Flowers of Manchester Author: Eric Winter (1958) MUNICH58.CO.UK.

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