Go Ad-Free
If you regularly use Hymnary.org, you might benefit from eliminating ads. Consider buying a subscription.
Text: | Throw Out the Lifeline |
Author: | Edward S. Ufford, 1851-1929 |
Tune: | LIFELINE |
Arranger: | George C. Stebbins, 1846-1945 |
Composer: | Edward S. Ufford |
1 Throw out the lifeline across the dark wave;
There is a brother whom someone should save;
Somebody’s brother, O who then will dare
To throw out the lifeline, his peril to share?
Refrain:
Throw out the lifeline! Throw out the lifeline!
Someone is drifting away;
Throw out the lifeline! Throw out the lifeline!
Someone is sinking today.
2 Throw out the lifeline with hand quick and strong;
Why do you tarry, why linger so long?
See, he is sinking, O hasten today;
And out with the lifeboat, away, then, away! [Refrain]
3 Throw out the lifeline 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. [Refrain]
4 Soon will the season of rescue be o’er;
Soon will they drift to eternity’s shore;
Haste then, my brother, no time for delay!
But throw out the lifeline and save them today. [Refrain]
Text Information | |
---|---|
First Line: | Throw out the lifeline across the dark wave |
Title: | Throw Out the Lifeline |
Author: | Edward S. Ufford, 1851-1929 |
Refrain First Line: | Throw out the lifeline! |
Meter: | Irregular with Refrain |
Language: | English |
Publication Date: | 2011 |
Scripture: | ; |
Topic: | The Christian Life: Call to Discipleship; Conversion; Discipleship(1 more...) |
Tune Information | |
---|---|
Name: | LIFELINE |
Composer: | Edward S. Ufford |
Arranger: | George C. Stebbins, 1846-1945 |
Meter: | Irregular with Refrain |
Key: | F Major or modal |