Oh, they built the ship Titanic, to sail the ocean blue.
And they thought it was a ship that water would never go through.
It was on its maiden trip, when an iceberg hit the ship.
It was sad when the great ship went down.
It was sad (so sad) it was sad (too bad)
It was sad when the great ship went down (to the bottom of the )
Husbands and wives, little children lost their lives
It was sad when the great ship went down.
They were not far from the shore, 'bout a thousand miles or more,
When the rich refused to associate with the poor.
So they threw them down below, where they were the first to go.
It was sad when the great ship went down.
It was sad (so sad) it was sad (too bad)
It was sad when the great ship went down (to the bottom of the )
Husbands and wives, little children lost their lives
It was sad when the great ship went down.
That ship was full of trouble and the sides about to burst,
When somebody shouted: "Women and children first!"
It was a night none would forget, even millionaires got wet!
It was sad when the great ship went down
It was sad (so sad) it was sad (too bad)
It was sad when the great ship went down (to the bottom of the )
Husbands and wives, little children lost their lives
It was sad when the great ship went down.
Oh they swung the lifeboats out o'er the deep and raging sea
When the band struck up with Nearer My God to Thee
Little children wept and cried as the waves swept o'er the side
It was sad when the great ship went down.
It was sad (so sad) it was sad (too bad)
It was sad when the great ship went down (to the bottom of the )
Husbands and wives, little children lost their lives
It was sad when the great ship went down.
The captain stood on deck with a tear drop in his eye
As the last boat went out, he waved them all goodbye
He knew he made a slip, so he went down with his ship
It was sad when the great ship went down
It was sad (so sad) it was sad (too bad)
It was sad when the great ship went down (to the bottom of the )
Husbands and wives, little children lost their lives
It was sad when the great ship went down.
When the people on the ship were a long way from home,
With the people all around them didn't know their time had come.
But Death came ridin' by, sixteen hundred had to die.
It was sad when that great ship went down
It was sad (so sad) it was sad (too bad)
It was sad when the great ship went down (to the bottom of the )
Husbands and wives, little children lost their lives
It was sad when the great ship went down.
The moral of the story, as you can plainly see,
Is: have a life preserver when you go out to sea.
Mother Natureâ??s hand made sure that ship would never land.
It was sad when the great ship went down
It was sad (so sad) it was sad (too bad)
It was sad when the great ship went down (to the bottom of the )
Husbands and wives, little children lost their lives
It was sad when the great ship went down.