titanic lyrics
PATTYMAC3
ago) about the Titanic, with the refrain "Husbands and wives, little children
lost their lives, Oh it was sad when the old ship went down"? I have one verse
but I think there are more. Any help from anyone would be MOST appreciated...I
want to sing this at a family gathering in late July.
Thank you
Patricia McMillen
Baumbaum
>ago) about the Titanic, with the refrain "Husbands and wives, little children
>lost their lives, Oh it was sad when the old ship went down"?
My favorite "parody on a parody" line is:
Uncles and aunts - itty bitty children lost their pants!
It was sad . . .
Try Digital Tradition for the whole thing.
Matt Baum - Expert in the Obsolete!
CphylThumb
I do recall the chorus...at least the way WE sang it.....
It was sad, so sad, It was sad, so sad,
It was sad when the great ship down (to the bottom of the......),
Husbands and wives, little children lost their lives,
It was sad when the great ship went down.
I'll be thinkin' about the verses.....but, wow, that was a lonnnnngggggg time
ago.
Brian
Cyril & Sandy Alberga
version. I really don't know where it came from, but I've had it on a
mimeographed single sheet for at least forty years.
This seems to be my day for songs set to this tune. I just posted
another parody, "Dr. Freud" on this group, this morning.
The Ship Titanic
Oh they built the ship Titanic to sail the ocean blue
And they thought they had a ship that the water would never come through
It was on her maiden trip that an iceberg hit the ship
It was sad when the great ship went down
It was sad, oh ti was sad,
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 the iceberg carved a hole in compartment number one
And it wasn't very long before the flooding had begun
Her the pressure differential was very influential
It was sad when the great ship went down
Now a weight was slowly added to this remote location
Which resulted in a moment 礎out the center of floatation
This set the bow in motion slightly deeper in the ocean
It was sad when the great ship went down
Thus the damaged piece of plating moved down a foot or two
And the static head of pressure caused more water to come thru
Further weight out on a limb caused an increase in the trim
It was sad when the great ship went down
But the trimming calculations in the semi-flooded state
Had a decimal mislocated, but by now it was to late
It was like the sound of thunder when the bulkhead to went under
It was sad when the great ship went down
Since above the bulkhead level doors and windows were cut thru
This brought about the flooding of compartment number two
An increase in the trim caused more water to come in
It was sad when the great ship went down
Towards compartment number three came the madly rushing sea
And the laws of Archimedes with respect to buoyancy
Would not be violated, so the whole damn thing deflated
It was sad when the great ship went down
Now the force of gravitation had been balance up to now
By the transverse inclination of the slowly sinking bow
But its good was now expended, Equilibrium thus ended
It was sad when the great ship went down
Thus the liner finally vanished from the surface of the sea
To a place where forces balance and where moments cannot be
As the ship owners repent and we solemnly lament
Lee Gold
of other places, but *MANY* thanks for the "engineering" version
to Jeff Willner. We had a friend who sang it but wouldn't give us a
copy, and I was beginning to lose hope I'd ever get those lyrics.
Cyril & Sandy Alberga
first (red) and second (yellow) IOCA song books, and song-sheets from
MIT in the early fifties.
Is Jeff Willner the writer of the engineer's version? I never knew.
Cyril
PATTYMAC3
query re: titanic lyrics. One question: what is the "IOCA Songbook"? Sorry to
be so dense, but I've been mostly an instrumentalist all my life & am
(obviously) quite out of touch with lyrics & sources thereof (y'all have helped
set me straight).
Thanks again--
Patricia McMillen
Cyril & Sandy Alberga
was mentioned not too long ago on this group. It is a collection of
songs which were popular among (guess!) collage Outing Clubs, back in
the '50s. The actual names are "Song Fest", and "The New Song Fest".
They are both edited by Dick and Beth Best. The first is a red covered
book, copyright 1948, the second has a yellow cover, and is copyrighted
1955. I have the third printing, November 1956.
The book was a stand-by when I was a Freshman in the Boston area in
1952, 53. Dick and Beth showed up at some of the song fests (lower
case), and included a number of the songs from the local mimeographed
hand-outs in the new edition. The books differ from the song sheets in
that they have the melody with chord names, rather than just the words.
I have no idea what the availability of these books is.
John Stirrat
Oh they built the ship Titanic and when they had
it through
They thought they had a ship that the water wouldn't
go through
It was on it's maiden trip when an iceberg hit
the ship
It was sad when the great ship went down.
(Chorus)
It was sad, it was sad, it was sad when the great
ship went down
To the bottom of the sea..............
(Husbands and wives itty bitty children lost
their lives)
It was sad when the great ship went down.
It was off the coast of England and not too far
from shore
When the rich refused to associate with the poor
So they sent them down below where they'd be
the first to go
It was sad when the great ship went down
(Chorus)
Mrs. Astor turned around just to see her husband
drowned
As the great Titanic gave a gurgling sound
Oh, she wrapped herself in mink
Just to watch the old man sink
It was sad when the great ship went down
(Chorus)
When they swung the lifeboats out on the deep
and raging sea
And the band struck up with "Nearer My God To
Thee"
The women and children cried as the the waves
swept o're the side
It was sad when the great ship went down.
I think there are actually many versions of this song as is true with most folk songs.
Jon-Jon
Harold Groot
<alb...@ibm.net> wrote:
>The IOCA (Intercollegiate Outing Club Association, I think) song book
>was mentioned not too long ago on this group. It is a collection of
>songs which were popular among (guess!) collage Outing Clubs, back in
>the '50s. The actual names are "Song Fest", and "The New Song Fest".
Perhaps it would be wise to mention that "Outing Club" meant people
who went mountain climbing, caving, white-water rafting and other such
Outdoor activities. These days it would be easy to attach a
completely different meaning.....
