[murron]

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

[TheRightGuy]

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

[GSWarrior]

Caligari's Mirror by Pere Ubu

[Erda]

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.

[Oztrich Boy]

This is even a questuin? On this very day?

Powderfinger's "To sail the wildest stretch"

[Madame Dufarge]

Del McCoury, The King’s Shilling.

[bkepley]

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

[Dan Cooper]

Let her go down - Steeleye Span

Greenland Whale Fisheries - The Pogues

[Daffynition]

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...

[cva66snipe]

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

[Revolting cat!]

Sail On, Sailor: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLxYwcfR6QY

[bt_dooftlook]

“Somewhere Beyond The Sea” by Bobby Darin...