[Verse 1]

The pale moon rose in its glory

Out o'er the Western town

She told a sad, sad story

Of the great ship that went down

[Verse 2]

T'was the fourteenth day of April

Over the waves she rode

Sailing into tomorrow

To a gilded age foretold

[Verse 3]

The night was black with starlight

The seas were sharp and clear

Moving through the shadows

The promised hour was near

[Verse 4]

Lights were holding steady

Gliding over the foam

All the lords and ladies

Heading for their eternal home

[Verse 5]

The chandeliers were swaying

From the balustrades above

The orchestra was playing

Songs of faded love

[Verse 6]

The watchman, he lay dreaming

As the ballroom dancers twirled

He dreamed the Titanic was sinking

Into the underworld

[Verse 7]

Leo took his sketchbook

He was often so inclined

He closed his eyes and painted

The scenery in his mind

[Verse 8]

Cupid struck his bosom

And broke it with a snap

The closest woman to him

He fell into her lap

[Verse 9]

He heard a loud commotion

Something sounded wrong

His inner spirit was saying

That he couldn't stand here long

[Verse 10]

He staggered to the quarterdeck

No time now to sleep

Water on the quarterdeck

Already three foot deep

[Verse 11]

Smokestack was leaning sideways

Heavy feet began to pound

He walked into the whirlwind

Sky splitting all around

[Verse 12]

The ship was going under

The universe had opened wide

The roll was called up yonder

The angels turned aside

[Verse 13]

Lights down in the hallway

Flickering dim and dull

Dead bodies already floating

In the double bottom hull

[Verse 14]

The engines then exploded

Propellers they failed to start

The boilers overloaded

The ship's bow split apart

[Verse 15]

Passengers were flying

Backward, forward, far and fast

They mumbled, fumbled, and tumbled

Each one more weary than the last

[Verse 16]

The veil was torn asunder

'Tween the hours of twelve and one

No change, no sudden wonder

Could undo what had been done

[Verse 17]

The watchman lay there dreaming

At forty-five degrees

He dreamed that the Titanic was sinking

Dropping to her knees

[Verse 18]

Wellington he was sleeping

His bed began to slide

His valiant heart was beating

He pushed the tables aside

[Verse 19]

Glass of shattered crystal

Lay scattered roundabout

He strapped on both his pistols

How long could he hold out?

[Verse 20]

His men and his companions

Were nowhere to be seen

In silence there he waited for

Time and space to intervene

[Verse 21]

The passageway was narrow

There was blackness in the air

He saw every kind of sorrow

Heard voices everywhere

[Verse 22]

Alarm-bells were ringing

To hold back the swelling tide

Friends and lovers clinging

To each other side by side

[Verse 23]

Mothers and their daughters

Descending down the stairs

Jumped into the icy waters

Love and pity sent their prayers

[Verse 24]

The rich man, Mister Astor

Kissed his darling wife

He had no way of knowing

Be the last trip of his life

[Verse 25]

Calvin, Blake, and Wilson

Gambled in the dark

Not one of them would ever live to

Tell the tale or disembark

[Verse 26]

Brother rose up 'gainst brother

In every circumstance

They fought and slaughtered each other

In a deadly dance

[Verse 27]

They lowered down the lifeboats

From the sinking wreck

There were traitors, there were turncoats

Broken backs and broken necks

[Verse 28]

The bishop left his cabin

To help all those in need

Turned his eyes up to the heavens

Said, "The poor are yours to feed"

[Verse 29]

Davey the brothel-keeper

Came out dismissed his girls

Saw the water getting deeper

Saw the changing of his world

[Verse 30]

Jim Backus smiled

He never learned to swim

Saw the little crippled child

And he gave his seat to him

[Verse 31]

He saw the starlight shining

Streaming from the East

Death was on the rampage

But his heart was now at peace

[Verse 32]

They battened down the hatches

But the hatches wouldn't hold

They drowned upon the staircase

Of brass and polished gold

[Verse 33]

Leo said to Cleo

I think I'm going mad

But he'd lost his mind already

Whatever mind he had

[Verse 34]

He tried to block the doorway

To save all those from harm

Blood from an open wound

Pouring down his arm

[Verse 35]

Petals fell from flowers

Tell all of them were gone

In the long and dreadful hours

The wizard's curse played on

[Verse 36]

The host was pouring brandy

He was going down slow

He stayed right to the end and he

Was the last to go

[Verse 37]

There were many, many others

Nameless here forever more

They never sailed the ocean

Or left their homes before

[Verse 38]

The watchman, he lay dreaming

The damage had been done

He dreamed the Titanic was sinking

And he tried to tell someone

[Verse 39]

The captain, barely breathing

Kneeling at the wheel

Above him and beneath him

Fifty thousand tons of steel

[Verse 40]

He looked over at his compass

And he gazed into its face

Needle pointing downward

He knew he lost the race

[Verse 41]

In the dark illumination

He remembered bygone years

He read the Book of Revelation

And he filled his cup with tears

[Verse 42]

When the Reaper's task had ended

Sixteen hundred had gone to rest

The good, the bad, the rich, the poor

The loveliest and the best

[Verse 43]

They waited at the landing

And they tried to understand

But there is no understanding

For the judgment of God's hand

[Verse 44]

The news came over the wires

And struck with deadly force

The love had lost its fires

All things had run their course

[Verse 45]

The watchman he lay dreaming

Of all the things that can be

He dreamed the Titanic was sinking

Into the deep blue sea