The nearly fourteen-minute title song retells the sinking of the Titanic.
The words
A sweeping ballad of the great ship's last night, following passengers and crew as it goes down.
This long narrative ballad retells the Titanic's last night, moving among passengers and crew as they dance, gamble, pray and face the end. There is no chorus; verse follows verse like an old folk ballad, returning to a watchman who dreams the disaster as it happens, and it even nods to the famous film. The tone is calm and fatalistic. It unfolds as a lilting waltz with fiddle and accordion, steady and almost soothing despite the subject.
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The words
A sweeping ballad of the great ship's last night, following passengers and crew as it goes down.
This long narrative ballad retells the Titanic's last night, moving among passengers and crew as they dance, gamble, pray and face the end. There is no chorus; verse follows verse like an old folk ballad, returning to a watchman who dreams the disaster as it happens, and it even nods to the famous film. The tone is calm and fatalistic. It unfolds as a lilting waltz with fiddle and accordion, steady and almost soothing despite the subject.
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