Flatt & Scruggs – Take Me In The Lifeboat (Guitar)

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[Chorus]
G
Take me in your lifeboat, oh

C                   G
Take me in your lifeboat

G                        D
It will stand the raging storm

G
Take me in your lifeboat, oh

C                   G
Take me in your lifeboat

G                      D  G
It will bear my spirit ho-ome
[Verse 1]
G                                   C            G
Now come, brothers and sisters, and don't fall asleep

G                                            D
But pray night and day or you'll sink in the deep

G                       C         G
Fathers and mothers are crying so loud

G                                     D   G
Saying Lord won't you take us in your lifeboat
[Chorus]
G
Take me in your lifeboat, oh

C                   G
Take me in your lifeboat

G                        D
It will stand the raging storm

G
Take me in your lifeboat, oh

C                   G
Take me in your lifeboat

G                      D  G
It will bear my spirit ho-ome
[Verse 2]
G                            C          G
The clouds are so heavy, the wind is so loud

G                                       D
The thunder is rollin' and burstin' the clouds

     G                           C              G
They pray to their shipmates for what they have done

                                    D   G
They took the dyin' sailor in the lifeboat
[Chorus]
G
Take me in your lifeboat, oh

C                   G
Take me in your lifeboat

G                        D
It will stand the raging storm

G
Take me in your lifeboat, oh

C                   G
Take me in your lifeboat

G                      D  G
It will bear my spirit ho-ome