The Ballad Of The Titanic

G C G Come gather round me people and my story I will tell C G A D Of a ship that sailed from Belfast in the year of 1912 G C G Acclaimed to be the greatest boat that ever was to be C G D G The greatest ocean liner that would ever sail the sea G C G The people that set sail on her for far Americay C G A D Were working class and peasant folk and gentry of the day G C G But nont foreseen the tragedy that was to lie ahead C G D G As tru the still dark waters the Titanic onward sped G C G Unsinkable unsinkable it was the crew's refrain C G A D Unthinkable unthinkable the damage she'd sustain G C G But sink she did and quick she slid beneath the watery waves C G D G Took 1500 people to the their lonely watery graves G C G She sailed her way from Queenstown on the southwest coast of Cork C G A D To make her maiden voyage to the city of New York G C G But off the coast of Newfoundland as tru the sea she plied C G D G An Iceberg tore three hundred foot of plating from her side G C G Unsinkable unsinkable it was the crew's refrain C G A D Unthinkable unthinkable the damage she'd sustain G C G But sink she did and quick she slid beneath the watery waves C G D G Took 1500 people to the their lonely watery graves G C G Yes 5 nights out of Queenstown on that starry moonless night C G A D She met her fatal rendez-vous that fateful sunday night G C G For underneath the water line there lay in deadly wait C G D G A mountain of an iceberg that would seal her awful fate G C G Unsinkable unsinkable it was the crew's refrain C G A D Unthinkable unthinkable the damage she'd sustain G C G But sink she did and quick she slid beneath the watery waves C G D G Took 1500 people to the their lonely watery graves