Ship of the Castaways

Verse 1
Out on the sea sails the SS Registrar General,
Steel hull of debt, flying flags so federal,
Captain Shep Herd, he keeps the crew in line,
With First Mate Fooligan, steering crooked in time.

Chorus
But the storm came down, the waves did roar,
That old state ship, it crashed on shore,
Seven castaways, they found their place,
On an island garden of God’s free grace.

Verse 2
There was Mr. Mammon with his Envy bride,
Counting all the treasures they could never hide,
Grace Adams the star, with a script in her hand,
Jane Doe the farm girl, sowing seeds in the sand.

Chorus
And the storm came down, the waves did roar,
That old state ship, it crashed on shore,
Seven castaways, they found their place,
On an island garden of God’s free grace.

Verse 3
Darwin Dull, the professor of fiction,
Dreamed of machines and man’s own invention,
But the paradise shore whispered calm and true,
“You can’t cage Eden with your point of view.”

Bridge
They schemed at first how to get back home,
To the debtor’s hell where the dead still roam,
But the garden sang with healing streams,
And slowly washed away their schemes.

Verse 4
Now Shep Herd rests, no flock to command,
Fooligan’s tricks fade away in the sand,
Mammon forgets all the gold in his plan,
While Grace and Jane dance barefoot on the land.

Final Chorus
So the storm came down, the waves did roar,
That old state ship won’t sail no more,
Seven castaways in God’s embrace,
Never returning to that debtor’s place.

Outro 
Thank God, oh thank God,
They never returned, no they never returned,
From paradise shore, they never returned,
To the hell of debt where the living dead burned.