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The Great Titanic

from GOOD ROAD by Burns and Warshaw

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The Great Titanic sank on April 14th 2012. Jack adapted the lyrics here from a 1915 text. He added the last verse on learning that the poor were the first and the most to go. Just 25% of third class saved, compared with 62% of first class.

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It was on one Monday morning just about one o'clock
When the great Titanic began to reel and rock;
All the people screamed and cried,
Saying, "Lord, we’re going to die
It was sad when that great ship went down

Chorus
It was sad when that great ship went down,
It was sad when that great ship went down,
Husbands and wives and little children lost their lives,
It was sad when that great ship went down.

While they were building they said what they would do,
We will build a ship that water can't go through;
But God with mighty hand
Showed the world it could not stand, it was sad…

They sailed from England’s port but they never did reach the shore,
The rich folks refused to associate with the poor,
So they sent the poor below,
Where they were the first to go, it was sad...

The people on that ship were a long ways from home,
With friends all around they didn't know their time had come;
Then Death came riding by,
Sixteen hundred had to die, it was sad...

What an awful sight to see all those people on the sea,
They say that they were singing, "Nearer My God to Thee."
While some were homeward bound,
Sixteen hundred had to drown.

The first class people were the most to be saved
More of the second class went to a watery grave
But on the ocean floor
Lies the tomb of the poor, it was sad...

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from GOOD ROAD, released February 15, 2013

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Veteran of the 1960s folk revival, he passionately believes, writes and sings with authenticity and respect for traditional American styles and song carriers. He has met, learned from or worked with such legends as Pete, Mike and Peggy Seeger, Tom Paley, Ewan MacColl, Bob Dylan, Mississippi John Hurt, Clarence Ashley, Dave Van Ronk, Stuart Burns and many others. Watch Youtube. Bio on Wikipedia ... more

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