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.
When that ship left England it was making for the shore,
The rich had declared that they would not ride with the poor,
So they put the poor below,
They were the first to go.
While they were building they said what they would do,
We will build a ship that water can’t go through;
But God with power in hand
Showed the world that it could not stand.
Those people on that ship were a long ways from home,
With friends all around they did n’t know that the time had come;
Death came riding by,
Sixteen hundred had to die.
While Paul was sailing his men around,
God told him that not a man should drown;
If you trust and obey,
I will save you all to-day.
You know it must have been awful with 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.
One fascinating story I heard about the Titanic was that one of its onboard coal bins had begun to smolder (as from someone carelessly dropping a lit cigarette butt in it) and while that didn’t pose a fire risk to the ship, it did pose a risk of losing the necessary fuel to traverse the ocean. And so the captain had the ship proceed at full speed even through known ice fields, rather than incur the embarrassment of having to have another ship meet it and supply more fuel and/or take the passengers to their final destinations.