Take me in your lifeboat, oh 

Take me in your lifeboat 

It will stand the raging storm 

Take me in your lifeboat, oh 

Take me in your lifeboat 

It will bear my spirit home. 



Now come brothers and sisters and don't fall asleep 

We'll pray night and day or we'll sink in the deep 

Fathers and mothers are prayin' so well 

The Lord won't you take me in your lifeboat. 



The clouds are so heavy the winds are so loud 

The thunder are rollin' and burstin' the clouds 

They pray to their sinner mates for what they have done 

They took the dyin' sinner in their lifeboat.