“The Lifeboat”
Description
"We're floating down the streams of time, We have not long to stay, The stormy clouds of darkness Is turned to brightest day. Oh let us all take courage... The lifeboat soon is coming To gather his jewels home." The joys of life with Jesus are outlined
Supplemental text
Lifeboat, The
Partial text(s)
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From Louis W. Chappell, _Folk-Songs of Roanoke and the Albemarle_,
#99, p. 172. Collected in 1938 from Laura Lamb of Tyner, NC.
We're floating down the streams of time,
We have not long to stay,
The stormy clouds of darkness
Is turned to brightest day.
Oh let us all take courage
For we're not left alone;
The lifeboat soon is coming
To gather his jewels home.
(1 additional stanza)
Notes
Roud lumps several "lifeboat" songs under this number, but one is a secular ballad, "The Little Clare Mary (Dailey's Lifeboat)." - RBW
References
- Chappell-FSRA 99, "The Lifeboat" (1 text, 1 tune)
- ST ChFRA099 (Partial)
- Roud #6629
- BI, ChFRA099