Take Me In Your Lifeboat - Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, Del McCoury, Robbie McCoury

Take me in your lifeboat, take me in your lifeboat

It will stand the ragin' storm

Take me in your lifeboat, take me in your lifeboat

It will bear the spirit home.

Come on, brothers and sisters, and don’t fall asleep

Pray night and day or you’ll sleep in the deep

Now fathers and mothers are prayin' so loud

Said: ‘Lord, won’t you take us in your lifeboat ?'

Take me in your lifeboat, take me in your lifeboat

It will stand the ragin' storm

Take me in your lifeboat, take me in your lifeboat

It will bear the spirit home.

Clouds are so heavy, the winds are so loud

Thunder is rolling beckoning the crowd

They pray for the shipmates for what they have done

They took the dyin' sailor in their lifeboat.

Take me in your lifeboat, take me in your lifeboat

It will stand the ragin' storm

Take me in your lifeboat, take me in your lifeboat

It will bear the spirit home.

Take me in your lifeboat, take me in your lifeboat

It will stand the ragin' storm

Take me in your lifeboat, take me in your lifeboat

It will bear the spirit home.