1.⁠Throw out the Life-Line across the dark wave,
There is a brother whom some one should save;
Somebody's brother! who then, will dare
Will throw out the Life-Line, his peril to share?
⁠Refrain
⁠Throw out the Life-Line! Throw out the Life-Line!
⁠Someone is drifting away;
⁠Throw out the Life-Line! Throw out the Life-Line!
⁠Someone is sinking today.
2.⁠Throw out the Life-Line with hand quick and strong:
Why do you tarry, why linger so long?
See! he is sinking; O hasten today
And out with the Life-Boat! away, then, away!
Refrain
3.⁠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,
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 Life-Line and save them today.
Refrain
Amen.