Take Me in Your Lifeboat

By:Frank Southern · Source Recording: The Bluegrass Album Band (1982)

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Take me in your lifeboat take me in your life boat
It will stand the raging storm
Take me in your lifeboat take me in your life boat
It will bear my spirit home

Now come brothers and sisters and don't fall asleep
We'll pray night and day or we'll sink in the deep
Fathers and mothers are prayin' so well
Then Lord won't you take me in your lifeboat

The clouds are so heavy the winds are so loud
The thunder's a-rollin' and burstin' in the clouds
They pray to their sinner mates for what they have done
They took the dyin' sinner in their lifeboat

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By:Frank Southern · Source Recording:The Bluegrass Album Band (1982)

Song Details

Also Known As

Take Me in a Lifeboat, Take Me in the Lifeboat

Songwriter

Frank Southern

First Release

J. E. Mainer's Mountaineers (1935)

Genres

Traditional Bluegrass Gospel

Themes

Faith/Praise Rivers, Seas & Oceans

Jam Popularity

History

“Take Me in Your Lifeboat” (also “Lifeboat”) is a Southern gospel song from the older revival-and-quartet tradition, with the maritime-as-spiritual conceit that runs through “Drifting Too Far from the Shore,” “Harbor of Love,” and similar pieces. The lyric works through a single image: the singer drowning in life’s storm, calling to Jesus to take him into the lifeboat that will carry him to the further shore.