Words and music: Edward S Ufford (1851-1929)

Throw Out the Life-Line

G                       D               G
Throw out the life-line across the dark wave
                        A7             D
There is a brother whom someone should save
G                       D             G
Somebody's brother! oh, who then will dare
                                 C    D7  G
To throw out the life-line, his peril to share

Chorus:
G
Throw out the life-line

Throw out the life-line
D7                  G 
Someone is drifting away
G
Throw out the life-line

Throw out the life-line
C           D7       G
Someone is sinking today


Throw out the life-line with hand quick and strong
Why do ye tarry, why linger so long
See he is sinking; oh, hasten today
And out with the lifeboat! Away then, away

Chorus

Throw out the life-line to danger-fraught men
Sinking in anguish where you've never been
Winds of temptation and billows of woe
Will soon hurl them out where the dark waters flow

Chorus

Soon will the season of rescue be over
Soon will they drift to eterntity's shore
Haste then, my brother, no time for delay
But throw out the life-line and save them today

Chorus