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"Mama, sweet Mama, don't you worry none, Even god couldn't sink this ship!" Well the whistle blew and they turned the screws It churned the water into foam Destination- Sweet Salvation Goodbye Home Sweet Home Chorus- I'm in teh danceband on the Titanic Singing Nearer my God to thee and the iceburgs on the starboard bow Won't you dance with me? There was a trombone and a saxophone, The bass and drums were cooking on the bandstand And I was standing in the middle with this dude on the fiddle We were three days out from land Now the foghorns jammed and moaning Hear it groaning thru the misty night, I heard the lookout shout down,"There's iceburgs around." But still everything's all right. Chorus They were burning all the flares for candles In the banquet they were throwing in first class And we were blowing waltzes in the ballroom When the Universe went CRASH! "There's no way that this could happen." I could hear the old Captain curse He ordered lifeboats away, that when I heard the Chaplain say," women, and Children, and Chaplains first." Well they soon used up all of the lifeboats, but there were a lot of us left on board I heard the drummer saying,"Boys just keep playing, Now were doing this gig for the Lord." Chorus Theres a wild eye boy in the radio shack He's the last remaining guest He was tapping in a Morse Code frenzy Tapping- "Please god, S.O.S.!" Jesus Christ can walk on water, but a music man will drown they say that Nero fiddled while Rome burned up Well I'll be strumming as the ship goes down. Chorus( leads to a fadeaway where it sounds like the band is going under water)" /Lyrics From The Harry Chapin Archive at Harrychapin.com\