1 Throw out the Life-Line across the dark wave,
There is a brother whom someone should save;
Somebody's brother! O who then, will dare
To 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]