Lyr Add: Throw Out the Life Line

11 Nov 98 - 03:43 PM (#44999)
Subject: Lyr Add: THROW OUT THE LIFELINE
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Some of the less strident temperance songs have beautiful melodies and tons of pathos. They work really well with the right accompaniment and if you leave out the verses that sound too comical today (demon rum etc). I often sing "Where is my wandering boy tonight" and "Throw out the lifeline".

Throw out the lifeline across the dark wave
There is a seaman who someone may save
Somebody's brother oh who then will dare
To throw out the lifeline his peril to share?

Throw out the lifeline, throw out the lifeline
Someone is drifting away
Throw out the lifeline, throw out the lifeline
Someone is drifting today

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