Flatt And Scruggs

Take Me in a Lifeboat

Flatt And Scruggs


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.