Titanic

From Camp Yawgoog.Org

Lyrics

Oh, they built the ship Titanic
To sail the ocean blue,
And they thought they had a ship
That the water would never leak through,
But the Lord’s Almighty Hand
Knew that ship would never stand.

Chorus
It was sad when the great ship went down.
Oh, it was sad; oh, it was sad, Lord, sad;
It was sad when that great ship went down,
To the bottom of the --
Husbands and wives, little children lost their lives,
It was sad when the great ship went down.

Oh, they were off the English Shore, maybe a thousand miles or more,
(Oh, they sailed from Merry England, and were almost to the shore,)
When the rich refused to associate with the poor,
So they put the poor below, where they were the first to go.
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Oh, the boat was full of sin, and the sides about to burst,
When the captain shouted “A-women and children first!”
Oh, the captain tried to wire, but the lines were all on fire.
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Oh, they swung the lifeboats out o'er the deep and raging sea,
When the band struck up with ‘A-nearer My God to Thee’.
Little children wept and cried, as the waves swept o’er the side.
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Oh the moral to be gained from this tale of woe and pain,
Is that if you’re rich you should not be so vain.
For in the good Lord’s eyes, you’re the same as other guys.
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