Lyrics: Maury Yeston
Music: Maury Yeston
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