The Good Ship Y.M.C.A.

We have a ship. we have her rigged, we have a gallant crew,

We have the sea to sail her on ‘neath peaceful skies and blue;

We have our vessel well supplied, we have the chart of God,

But we must work this ship of life to meet with large reward.

                             Chorus

          The work my brothers, put to sea,

                    The flag of Truth float high;

          There’s storms to brave and souls to save,

                   And God is ever nigh.

Our gallant ship is large enough to carry many more,

And we must scour this human sea, aye, search from shore to shore,

And fill our craft of God with men who drift but aimlessly

Without a port or chart of Him, upon a stormy sea.

                              Chorus –

Feb. 17, 1892

Pub. in Cam. Asso. Record,

for April. ‘92