Powderfinger's "To sail the wildest stretch"
Posted on 05/15/2012 5:55:16 AM PDT by strider44
The Boards have been heavy lately. Hopefully this can lighten the mood around here. Need helpsettling a family dispute.
What is the better sailing song?
Sloop John B by the Beach Boys
or Southern Cross by Crosby Stills and Nash
(the politics of the bands doesn't matter folks)
or do you have another song? IMHO these 2 are it and its a matter of degree which one is better.
I apologize in advance for not taking one of the two choices offered.
How about
Orinoco Flow (Enya)
The Last Farewell (Roger Whittaker)
Or, of course,
The viking Kitties LOL:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfr3AkSQsA0
Into the Mystic Van Morrison
Into the Mystic Van Morrison
Come On Down to My Boat Baby (I don’t remember who recorded it).
I like the hymn that was sung in the Titanic during the Sunday service. For the life of me, I can’t remember its name.
Act one, scene one of Der Fliegende Hollander. The Flying Dutchman. When I hear the first low thumping of the waves hitting the boat I marvel at Wagner and the orchestra because before I know it I am to sea.
Powderfinger's "To sail the wildest stretch"
Del McCoury, The King’s Shilling.
I guess it’s not a “Sailing Song” but I like “The Downeaster Elexa” and almost anything else Billy Joel ever did:
Well I’m on the Downeaster “Alexa”
And I’m cruising through Block Island Sound
I have charted a course to the Vineyard
But tonight I am Nantucket bound
We took on diesel back in Montauk yesterday
And left this morning from the bell in Gardiner’s Bay
Like all the locals here I’ve had to sell my home
Too proud to leave I worked my fingers to the bone
So I could own my Downeaster “Alexa”
And I go where the ocean is deep
There are giants out there in the canyons
And a good captain can’t fall asleep
I’ve got bills to pay and children who need clothes
I know there’s fish out there but where God only knows
They say these waters aren’t what they used to be
But I’ve got people back on land who count on me
So if you see my Downeaster “Alexa”
And if you work with the rod and the reel
Tell my wife I am trawling Atlantis
And I still have my hands on the wheel
Now I drive my Downeaster “Alexa”
More and more miles from shore every year
Since they tell me I can’t sell no stripers
And there’s no luck in swordfishing here.
I was a bayman like my father was before
Can’t make a living as a bayman anymore
There ain’t much future for a man who works the sea
But there ain’t no island left for islanders like me
And for that matter, Jim Morris has a song called "Yankee Traitor" that's pretty good, too.
If you have succumbed to skippering a *blow-boat* and you are a true *rag bagger*, there are many great ones: Sting - Wild Wild Sea and Rod Stewart-Sailing
Consummate sailors...
“Ship of Fools” by Bob Seger. “Cool Change” by Little River Band.
One I think was a surfer. Dennis Wilson the drummer did surf according to bio. The others? No.
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