Take Me In Your Lifeboat

	  		A                         D                     A 
Take me in your lifeboat, take me in your lifeboat 
A                        E 
It will stand the raging storm 
A                         D                   A 
Take me in your lifeboat, take me in your lifeboat 
                       E   A 
It will bear my spirit home 
A                       D              A 
Come brothers, sisters, don't fall asleep 
                                           E 
Pray night and day, or you'll sleep in the deep 
A                       D           A 
Fathers and mothers are praying so loud 
                                E    A 
Lord, won't you take us in your lifeboat 
A                         D                     A 
Take me in your lifeboat, take me in your lifeboat 
A                        E 
It will stand the raging storm 
A                         D                   A 
Take me in your lifeboat, take me in your lifeboat 
                       E   A 
It will bear my spirit home 
 
SOLO 
 
A                            D            A 
The clouds are so heavy, the winds is so loud 
A                                     E 
The thunder is roaring, beckoning the crowd 
A                                D              A 
They pray to their shipmates for what they have done 
A                                    E    A 
They took the dying sailor in their  lifeboat 
A                         D                     A 
Take me in your lifeboat, take me in your lifeboat 
A                        E 
It will stand the raging storm 
A                         D                   A 
Take me in your lifeboat, take me in your lifeboat 
                       E   A 
It will bear my spirit home 
 
SOLO 
 
A                         D                     A 
Take me in your lifeboat, take me in your lifeboat 
A                        E 
It will stand the raging storm 
A                         D                   A 
Take me in your lifeboat, take me in your lifeboat 
                       E   D   A 
It will bear my spirit home 
 
 
>From Chris Hillan "Slipping Away" 
Bar None Music(BMI)