| Summary: | voice collected by sung by Mrs. Montie Martin Brenda Upton Jasper, Arkansas April 25, 1962 Reel 401 Item 18 TITANTIC On the 17th day of April In nineteen hundred and twelve, A ship by the name of Titantic Left Liverpool with a swell. She was headed for New York City With a cargo of wealth untold. On the shores of the Newfoundland Island She sand in the waters so cold. While the mighty ship was sinking On the cold and icy sea, The last the band was heard to play Was "Nearer my God to Thee" The doctors, lawyers and merchants The rich and the poor with pride, The gambler with all of his money Now go down the same. The slayers were snared by the cunning, The slayers now die with the slain. Funding for digitization provided by the Arkansas Humanities Council and the Happy Hollow Foundation.
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