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The Great Titanic |
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It was on one Monday morning just about one o'clock |
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When that great Titanic began to reel and rock; |
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People began to scream and cry, |
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Saying, "Lord, am I going to die?" |
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Chorus |
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It was sad when that great ship went down, |
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It was sad when that great ship went down, |
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Husbands and wives and little children lost their lives, |
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It was sad when that great ship went down. |
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When that ship left England it was making for the shore, |
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The rich had declared that they would not ride with the poor, |
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So they put the poor below, |
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They were the first to go. |
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While they were building they said what they would do, |
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We will build a ship that water can't go through; |
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But God with power in hand |
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Showed the world that it could not stand. |
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Those people on that ship were a long ways from home, |
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With friends all around they did n't know that the time had come; |
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Death came riding by, |
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Sixteen hundred had to die. |
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While Paul was sailing his men around, |
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God told him that not a man should drown; |
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If you trust and obey, |
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I will save you all to-day. |
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You know it must have been awful with those people on the sea, |
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They say that they were singing, "Nearer My God to Thee." |
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While some were homeward bound, |
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Sixteen hundred had to drown. |
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The North Carolina version D has a similar chorus to the above Alabama version: |
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Oh it was sad when that great ship went down. |
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Their were husbands and their wives, |
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Little children lost their lives. |
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It was sad when that great ship went down. |