The Titanic chords by The Traditional

The Titanic

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Oh, they built the ship Titanic, to sail the ocean blue.
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And they thought it was a ship that water would never go through.
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It was on its maiden trip, when an iceberg hit the ship.
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It was sad when the great ship went down.


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It was sad (so sad) it was sad (too bad)
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It was sad when the great ship went down (to the bottom of the....)
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Husbands and wives, little children lost their lives
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It was sad when the great ship went down.

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They were not far from the shore, 'bout a thousand miles or more,
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When the rich refused to associate with the poor.
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So they threw them down below, where they were the first to go.
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It was sad when the great ship went down.

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It was sad (so sad) it was sad (too bad)
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It was sad when the great ship went down (to the bottom of the....)
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Husbands and wives, little children lost their lives
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It was sad when the great ship went down.

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That ship was full of trouble and the sides about to burst,
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When somebody shouted: "Women and children first!"
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It was a night none would forget, even millionaires got wet!
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It was sad when the great ship went down

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It was sad (so sad) it was sad (too bad)
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It was sad when the great ship went down (to the bottom of the....)
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Husbands and wives, little children lost their lives
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It was sad when the great ship went down.


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Oh they swung the lifeboats out o'er the deep and raging sea
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When the band struck up with Nearer My God to Thee
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Little children wept and cried as the waves swept o'er the side
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It was sad when the great ship went down.


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It was sad (so sad) it was sad (too bad)
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It was sad when the great ship went down (to the bottom of the....)
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Husbands and wives, little children lost their lives
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It was sad when the great ship went down.

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The captain stood on deck with a tear drop in his eye
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As the last boat went out, he waved them all goodbye
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He knew he made a slip, so he went down with his ship
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It was sad when the great ship went down

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It was sad (so sad) it was sad (too bad)
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It was sad when the great ship went down (to the bottom of the....)
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Husbands and wives, little children lost their lives
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It was sad when the great ship went down.

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When the people on the ship were a long way from home,
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With the people all around them didn't know their time had come.
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But Death came ridin' by, sixteen hundred had to die.
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It was sad when that great ship went down

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It was sad (so sad) it was sad (too bad)
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It was sad when the great ship went down (to the bottom of the....)
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Husbands and wives, little children lost their lives
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It was sad when the great ship went down.

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The moral of the story, as you can plainly see,
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Is: have a life preserver when you go out to sea.
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Mother Nature?s hand made sure that ship would never land.
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It was sad when the great ship went down

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It was sad (so sad) it was sad (too bad)
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It was sad when the great ship went down (to the bottom of the....)
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Husbands and wives, little children lost their lives
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