| Take me in your lifeboat, oh
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| Take me in your lifeboat
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| It will stand the raging storm
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| Take me in your lifeboat, oh
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| Take me in your lifeboat
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| It will bear my spirit home
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| Now come brothers and sisters and don’t fall asleep
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| We’ll pray night and day or we’ll sink in the deep
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| Fathers and mothers are prayin' so well
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| The Lord won’t you take me in your lifeboat
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| The clouds are so heavy the winds are so loud
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| The thunder are rollin' and burstin' the clouds
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| They pray to their sinner mates for what they have done
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| They took the dyin' sinner in their lifeboat |