The Ship "Titanic"
Words & Music:
Traditional
Most kids will giggle
uncontrollably if you replace the line "Husbands & wives, little
children lost their lives" with the ever-entertaining "Uncles &
aunts, little children lost their pants". Sounghound Oxnate reminded me of the crucial last verse (you
can't have a story without the moral!).
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Oh, they built the ship Titanic
to sail the ocean blue.
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And they thought they had a
ship that the water will never come through.
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But the Lord's almighty hand
said that ship would never land.
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It was sad when the great ship
went down.
CHORUS:
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Oh, it was sad, it was sad, it
was sad. Too bad!
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It was sad when the great ship
went down
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Adim
To the bottom of the
sea--------------------------------------------------.
[Husbands and wives, little children lost their lives.]
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It was sad when the great ship
went down.
Oh, they sailed away from
England and were almost to the shore,
And the rich refused to
associate with the poor.
So, they put them down below
where they were the first to go.
It was sad when the great ship
went down.
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Oh, the boat was full of sin
and the sides about to burst
When the captain shouted,
"All women and children first!"
Oh, the captain tried to wire,
but the lines were all on fire.
It was sad when the great ship
went down.
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Oh, they swung the lifeboats
o'er the deep and raging sea.
When the band struck up with
"Nearer My God to Thee"
Little children wept &
cried as the waves swept o'er the sides.
It was sad when the great ship
went down.
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Oh, the moral of the story, as
you can plainly see
Is to wear a life preserver
whene'er you go to sea.
Little children wept &
cried as the waves swept o'er the side.
It was sad when the great ship
went down.
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