Dance band on the titanic   Sing "Nearer, my God, to thee"   The iceberg's on the starboard bow   Won't you dance with me?      Mama stood cryin' at the dockside   Sayin' "Please son, don't take this trip"   I said "Mama, sweet mama, don't you worry none   Even God couldn't sink this ship"      Well, the whistle blew and they turned the screws   It turned the water into foam   Destination sweet salvation   Goodbye home sweet home      I'm in the dance band on the titanic   Sing "Nearer, my God, to thee"   The iceberg's on the starboard bow   Won't you dance with me?      There was a trombone and a saxophone   The bass and drums were cookin' up the bandstand   And I was strummin' in the middle with this dude on the fiddle   And we were three days out from land      And now the foghorn's jammed and moanin'   Hear it groanin' through the misty night   I heard the lookout shout down   "There's icebergs around but still everything's all right"      Oh, the dance band on the titanic   Sing "Nearer, my God, to thee"   The iceberg's on the starboard bow   Won't you dance with me?      They were burnin' all the flares for candles   In the banquet they were throwin' in first class   And we were blowin' waltzes in the barroom   When the universe went crash      "There's no way that this could happen"   I could hear the old captain curse   He ordered lifeboats away, that's when I heard the chaplain say   "Women and children and chaplains first"      Well, they soon used up all of the lifeboats   But there were a lot of us left on board   I heard the drummer sayin'   "Boys, just keep playin', now we're doin' this gig for the Lord"      I heard the dance band on the titanic   Sing "Nearer, my God, to thee"   The iceberg's on the starboard bow   Won't you dance with me?      The