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What's the best sailing Song?
Strider44

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.


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To: rockinqsranch

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


101 posted on 05/15/2012 8:50:52 AM PDT by TFMcGuire (Liberalism Is Hatred)
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To: Errant

Into the Mystic Van Morrison


103 posted on 05/15/2012 8:54:43 AM PDT by isiti
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To: Errant

Into the Mystic Van Morrison


104 posted on 05/15/2012 8:54:51 AM PDT by isiti
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To: Dr. Ursus
What the band was playing on the deck of the Titanic!

They ended with "Nearer, My God, to Thee"
105 posted on 05/15/2012 8:56:25 AM PDT by SpinnerWebb (In 2012 you will awaken from your HOPEnosis and have no recollection of this... "Constitution")
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To: strider44

Come On Down to My Boat Baby (I don’t remember who recorded it).


106 posted on 05/15/2012 9:04:39 AM PDT by murron (Proud Mom of a Marine Vet)
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To: SpinnerWebb

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.


107 posted on 05/15/2012 9:14:05 AM PDT by murron (Proud Mom of a Marine Vet)
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To: murron
Eternal Father, Strong to Save
108 posted on 05/15/2012 9:18:17 AM PDT by SpinnerWebb (In 2012 you will awaken from your HOPEnosis and have no recollection of this... "Constitution")
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To: strider44

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGyPuey-1Jw


109 posted on 05/15/2012 9:19:07 AM PDT by TheRightGuy (I want MY BAILOUT ... a billion or two should do!)
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To: strider44
Caligari's Mirror by Pere Ubu
110 posted on 05/15/2012 9:23:51 AM PDT by GSWarrior
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To: strider44

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.


111 posted on 05/15/2012 9:56:40 AM PDT by Erda
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To: strider44
This is even a questuin? On this very day?

Powderfinger's "To sail the wildest stretch"


112 posted on 05/15/2012 10:02:34 AM PDT by Oztrich Boy (May 15 - Jessica Watson day.)
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To: strider44

Del McCoury, The King’s Shilling.


113 posted on 05/15/2012 10:27:07 AM PDT by Madame Dufarge
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To: strider44

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


114 posted on 05/15/2012 11:41:36 AM PDT by bkepley
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To: strider44
Let her go down - Steeleye Span

Greenland Whale Fisheries - The Pogues

115 posted on 05/15/2012 12:25:11 PM PDT by Dan Cooper
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To: strider44
He definitely is a category all his own -- your two picks are good, but I'd add One Particular Harbour to that -- as well as the whole "Boats" disc from his 4-CD set.

And for that matter, Jim Morris has a song called "Yankee Traitor" that's pretty good, too.

116 posted on 05/15/2012 12:43:13 PM PDT by Fast Moving Angel (A moral wrong is not a civil right: No religious sanction of an irreligious act.)
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To: CJ Wolf
"Boats N Hoes" by Huff & Doback
117 posted on 05/15/2012 4:50:22 PM PDT by Boogieman
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To: strider44
If one has any connection to working the sea...this is *it*. Bar none. Billy Joel – The Downeaster "Alexa"

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...


118 posted on 05/15/2012 5:38:11 PM PDT by Daffynition (Our forefathers would be shooting by now.)
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To: strider44

“Ship of Fools” by Bob Seger. “Cool Change” by Little River Band.


119 posted on 05/15/2012 5:45:20 PM PDT by cva66snipe (Two Choices left for U.S. One Nation Under GOD or One Nation Under Judgment? Which one say ye?)
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To: gunsequalfreedom
But they don't even know how to surf...

One I think was a surfer. Dennis Wilson the drummer did surf according to bio. The others? No.

120 posted on 05/15/2012 5:49:30 PM PDT by cva66snipe (Two Choices left for U.S. One Nation Under GOD or One Nation Under Judgment? Which one say ye?)
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