I Must Get On That Ship Lyrics

I Must Get On That Ship Text

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PITMAN
3rd class passengers
Proceed at once to the gangway!
Please bring your boarding documents
And await further insructions!...

KATE MURPHEY
Holy Mother of God! Is that a ship or a mountian?

KATE MCGOWAN
It looks long enough so a body could walk to America!
I'm Katherine McGowan, but everyone calls me Kate.

KATE MULLINS
I'm Kate, too. Kate Mullins.

KATE MURPHEY
And I'm Kate three! Kate Murphey-

KATE MULLINS
It must be fate, then!

KATE MCGOWAN
It's not fate. It's Irish.

KATE MULLINS
You travellin' alone?

KATE MCGOWAN
Not me, I've got a feller. See that good-lookin' one
up ahead? I'm plannin' to marry him.

KATE MURPHEY
When's that gonna be?

KATE MCGOWAN
Soon as I meet him.
Get me aboard

THREE KATES
Call out my name

3RD CLASS PASSENGERS
It's to America we aim
To find a better life,
We prayed to make this trip!
Let all our children's children know
That this day long ago
We dreamt of them
And came aboard this ship!

ALL
For the maiden voyage!
For the maiden voyage!
Get us all aboard!

PITMAN
Second class passengers
Proceed to "C", "D" and "E" decks!
Please contact the ships purser
To arrange dining assignments!...

CHARLES CLARKE
No account in the National Press
Has quite done justice to this!

EDGAR BEANE
It's a sight for once in a lifetime!

EDGAR & ALICE BEANE, CLARKE & CAROLINE NEVILLE
Yes, a sight for once in a lifetime!

CLARKE
And the chance to run away
And marry now
We two daren't miss!

CAROLINE NEVILLE
It's a chance for once in a lifetime!

2ND CLASS PASSENGERS
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!

ALIBE BEANE
The finest people will attend.
The best among them we'll befriend
They'll stand right next to us,
Be at my fingertip...

ALL
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 all aboard!