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The ship is sinking in the Bottom Ten-nessee

Bottom 10 Inspirational thought of the week:

Though like the wanderer, the sun gone down,
Darkness be over me, my rest a stone.
Yet in my dreams
I'd be nearer, my God, to Thee.

-- "Nearer, my God, to Thee," Sarah F. Adams, 1841

More than a century later, there is still much debate as to what song the eight-person band defiantly played on the deck of the RMS Titanic as it started its final descent into the icy waters of the North Atlantic.

A wealthy first-class passenger named Vera Dick lived out her days telling the dramatic tale of the Titanic band, and in her story she said the tune was the hymn "Nearer, my God, to Thee" and that is the song used in the James Cameron's Oscar-winning film.