The Launching: I Must Get On That Ship

3rd class passengers

Proceed at once to the gangway!

Please bring your boarding documents

And await further insructions!...

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

It looks long enough so a body could walk to America!

I'm Katherine McGowan, but everyone calls me Kate.

I'm Kate, too. Kate Mullins.

And I'm Kate three! Kate Murphey-

It must be fate, then!

It's not fate. It's Irish.

You travellin' alone?

Not me, I've got a feller. See that good-lookin' one

Up ahead? I'm plannin' to marry him.

When's that gonna be?

Soon as I meet him.

Get me aboard

Call out my name

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!

For the maiden voyage!

For the maiden voyage!

Get us all aboard!

Second class passengers

Proceed to "C", "D" and "E" decks!

Please contact the ships purser

To arrange dining assignments!...

No account in the National Press

Has quite done justice to this!

It's a sight for once in a lifetime!

Yes, a sight for once in a lifetime!

And the chance to run away

And marry now

We two daren't miss!

It's a chance for once in a lifetime!

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!

The finest people will attend.

The best among them we'll befriend

They'll stand right next to us,

Be at my fingertip...

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!