Take Me In Your Lifeboat

DESCRIPTION: "Come, brother sailors, and don't you fall asleep, Pray night and day or you'll sink in the deep." "Take me in your lifeboat (x2), She can stand the raging storm, Take me in your lifeboat (x2), She will bear my spirit home." The port is nearby.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1958 (Cheney-MormonSongs)
KEYWORDS: ship religious storm
FOUND IN: US(Ro)
REFERENCES (1 citation):
Cheney-MormonSongs, pp. 172-173, "The Lifeboat" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #6629
CROSS-REFERENCES:
cf. "Pull for the Shore" (theme)
NOTES [39 words]: Roud lumps several "lifeboat" songs under this number, but they really seem separate to me. Cheney's version of this looks like a minstrel song, but I've heard it, somewhere, sung without dialect, so I've transcribed it that way. - RBW
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File: ChMS172

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