john_morris_uk
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Ignoring his nautical ignorance and romanticised fantasies I’ve sung in this a couple of times and have been known to annoy the crew by singing snatches from it.
Places you have annoyed your crew by singing about them whilst on way to or passing.
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Irish Rover
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I sometimes murder this traditional Irish sea shanty much to the amusement of my wife and daughter neither of whom understand or speak Gaelic
Little Dorrit
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I'm expecting criticism for an unwoke artist but nevertheless:
It's very nice to go trav'ling
To Paris, London and Rome
It's oh, so nice to go trav'ling
But it's so much nicer
Yes, it's so much nicer to come home
It's very nice to go trav'ling
To Paris, London and Rome
It's oh, so nice to go trav'ling
But it's so much nicer
Yes, it's so much nicer to come home
Poignard
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That's very good, and you probably know Elgar's "Sea Pictures" sung by that lovely Janet Baker
JANET BAKER "SEA PICTURES" (Elgar) Sir John Barbirolli / LSO ~HQ remastered - Bing video
siwhi
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Travelers crossing the Gascanane Sound, near Baltimore in County Cork should write a verse to be recited as they cross, usually on the way to Cape Clear Island. We all did, and to my surprise some of them were very good!
Weeks of "Oh, we're going to Barbados" or "Southern Cross" by Crosby Stills & Nash wears thin, almost as much as does 10 minutes of "Mull of Kintyre".
Weeks of "Oh, we're going to Barbados" or "Southern Cross" by Crosby Stills & Nash wears thin, almost as much as does 10 minutes of "Mull of Kintyre".
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mattonthesea
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Rock the Boat (Don't Rock the Boat!) - The Hues Corporation, followed closely by 'I'm 18 with a bullet" by Pete Sinfield. Linked only because I lived on the Norfolk Broads when they were in the charts.
westhinder
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I confess I could not resist I wish I were in Carrickfergus on the way to Carrickfergus, but I soon switched to the IPad before my crew threatened to jump ship.
JumbleDuck
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Having actually been to Carrickfergus, "I wish I were in Carrickfergus" seems like a most implausible emotion, up there with "My heart's in Stevenage still" and "Dreaming of Middlesbrough".
sgr143
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Or "Wonderful, wonderful Hucknall Torkard"...
westhinder
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It was my first visit there since the Troubles, and I felt the atmosphere had much improved. I was there on the day of a big Orange march, but it was markedly less menacing than 20 years earlier. Still I can think of more pleasant places, but the song has a place in my heart
LittleSister
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Is mine the only vessel that resonates to the sound of 'Gillygilly-Ossenfeffer-Catzanella-Bogen-By-The-Sea'?
Does no one sing Zappa's "Sheik Yerbouti Tango'?
Or Marvin Gaye's classic, 'Can I Get to Widnes?'
Does no one sing Zappa's "Sheik Yerbouti Tango'?
Or Marvin Gaye's classic, 'Can I Get to Widnes?'