Songs featuring ships or boats

Nantucket Sleighride, by Mountain

[kosmo vinyl]

"wreck of the edmund fitzgerald" - gordon lightfoot
 
 "sloop john b" - the beach boys

[brennser]

The Irish Rover, The Dubliners....then The Pogues and the Dubliners

[chaz]

Originally posted by kosmo vinyl:
  "wreck of the edmund fitzgerald" - gordon lightfoot
 
 

That song cracks me up.  A band I was in about 10 or 12 years ago did a cover of it.  What a mess that was, but great fun after about 100 beers and fifty bong hits.
 
 "When suppertime came the old cook came on deck sayin'.
 Fellas, it's too rough t'feed ya.
 At seven P.M. a main hatchway caved in; he said,
 Fellas, it's bin good t'know ya!"

[Justin Tonation]

"Pirate Jenny" as performed by Nina Simone (written by Weill/Brecht/Blitzstein but this is the version that matters, therefore one can authoritively say that "Pirate Jenny" is  by Nina Simone. Don't belive me? Then go listen to it. After you come out from under your bed scared shitless, let us know what you think).

Originally posted by chaz:
  That song cracks me up.

It really did crack them up too, poor bastards.  That song is required playing on Upper Michigan radio...must be played every hour no matter the format.  If I was Rhett I'd get all indignent now about how insensate you are, "What if the relatives of those poor mariners are reading this bboard, etc..?"

[chaz]

Originally posted by Dupek Chopra:
   

Originally posted by chaz:
  That song cracks me up.

It really did crack them up too, poor bastards.  That song is required playing on Upper Michigan radio...must be played every hour no matter the format.  If I was Rhett I'd get all indignent now about how insensate you are, "What if the relatives of those poor mariners are reading this bboard, etc..?" [/b]

Yes it's true.  I'm a very a bad and insensitive person.  But there's no denying the comedy in lyrics such as:
 
 "Lake Huron rolls, Superior sings
 in the rooms of her ice-water mansion.
 Old Michigan steams like a young man's dreams;
 the islands and bays are for sportsmen!"

Originally posted by chaz:
   But there's no denying the comedy in lyrics such as:
 
 "Old Michigan steams like a young man's dreams;
 the islands and bays are for sportsmen!"

It's more tragedy than comedy.  Any fish caught in Lake Michigan should not be eaten.

[Venerable Bede]

downeaster alexa- billy joel  

[mankie]

Sail this ship alone, The Beautiful South

[mankie]

Strange Boat, The Waterboys

[mankie]

Avalon, Bryan "Ferry"  

Come Sail Away, by Eric Cartman

[chaz]

Sailing by Christopher Cross.

[MindCage]

Calling the Ships to Port - Covenant
 Ship of Fools - Robert Plant
 
 
 MindCage
 Mindless Faith
 Deep6 Productions