| Take me in your lifeboat, take me in your lifeboat
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| It will stand the ragin' storm
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| Take me in your lifeboat, take me in your lifeboat
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| It will bear the spirit home.
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| Come on, brothers and sisters, and don’t fall asleep
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| Pray night and day or you’ll sleep in the deep
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| Now fathers and mothers are prayin' so loud
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| Said: ‘Lord, won’t you take us in your lifeboat ?'
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| Take me in your lifeboat, take me in your lifeboat
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| It will stand the ragin' storm
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| Take me in your lifeboat, take me in your lifeboat
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| It will bear the spirit home.
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| Clouds are so heavy, the winds are so loud
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| Thunder is rolling beckoning the crowd
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| They pray for the shipmates for what they have done
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| They took the dyin' sailor in their lifeboat.
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| Take me in your lifeboat, take me in your lifeboat
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| It will stand the ragin' storm
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| Take me in your lifeboat, take me in your lifeboat
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| It will bear the spirit home.
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| Take me in your lifeboat, take me in your lifeboat
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| It will stand the ragin' storm
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| Take me in your lifeboat, take me in your lifeboat
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| It will bear the spirit home. |