I Must Get on That Ship

3rd class passengers

Proceed at once to the gangway

Please bring your boarding documents

And await further insructions

Holy mother of god is that a ship or a mountian

It looks long enough so a body could walk to America

I'm Katherine McGowan but everyone calls me Kate

I'm Kate too

Kate Mullins

And I'm Kate three

Kate Murphey

It must be fate then

It's not fate it's Irish

Are you travellin' alone

Not me I've got a fellow see that good lookin' one

Up ahead I'm plannin' to marry him

When's that gonna be

Soon as I meet him

Get me aboard

Call out my name

It's to America we aim

To find a better life

We prayed to make this trip

Let our children's children know

That this day long ago

We dreamt of them

And came aboard this ship

For the maiden voyage

For the maiden voyage

Get us aboard

Second class passengers

Proceed to C D and E decks

Please contact the ships purser

To arrange dining assignments

No account in the national press

Has quite done justice to this

It's a sight for once in a lifetime

Yes a sight for once in a lifetime

And the chance to run away

And marry now

We two daren't miss

It's a chance for once in a lifetime

Yes a chance for once in a lifetime

Can't wait to board that ship today

Be with her when she pulls away

And takes her maiden sail

I must get on that ship

The largest grandest on the earth

And I've reserved a berth

To be aboard now point me toward

That ship

The finest people will attend

The best among them we'll be friend

They'll stand right next to us

Be at my fingertip

Great heads of state and millionaires

Who run the world's affairs

Will be there

I must get on that ship

For the maiden voyage

For the maiden voyage

Get us aboard