<Tr> <Th> Genre </Th> <Td> American folk music </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Songwriter (s) </Th> <Td> William and Versey Smith </Td> </Tr> <P> "The Titanic" (also known as "It Was Sad When That Great Ship Went Down" and "Titanic (Husbands and Wives)") is a folk song and children's song most known for being sung in the United States at girl scout summer camps . "The Titanic" is about the sinking of the RMS Titanic which sank on April 15, 1912 after striking an iceberg . </P> <P> The first folk songs about the Titanic disaster appeared within weeks after the disaster . Recordings of various songs about the disaster date to as early as 1913 . </P>

It was sad when the great ship went down song lyrics