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, sisters, and don't fall asleep 
But pray night and day or you'll sink in the deep 
Fathers and mothers are cryin' so loud
Sayin' Lord won't you take us in your lifeboat. 

The floods are so heavy the winds are so loud 
The thunder's a rollin', burstin' the clouds 
They pray to their shipmate for what they have done 
They took the dyin' savior in their lifeboat.

                          Thanks to rcarter ischool.utexas.edu for these lyrics