Best boating song?

Sail Away by David Gray - great song to have on with a glass of wine in the cockpit

Sail away with me honey
I put my heart in your hands
Sail away with me honey now, now, now
Sail away with me
What will be will be
I wanna hold you now

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When it's blowing a b*$tard and in big seas I really like the chorus of "The Keeper of the Eddystone Light";

Yo ho ho, the wind blows free,
Oh for the life on the rolling sea!

But of course "All for me grog" is usually far more appropriate /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
 
Well,F4 on the quarter you say?
'Spanish Ladies' (Farewell and adieu to you, fair Spanish ladies,etc) is quite rollicking and apt.

When the forecast 6-7 becomes SW 8 and the western Solent approaches is coming up,aka NAS's recent seamanship scenario, it would have to be ''Non,Je ne regrette rien" by Edith Piaf.
 
Stricly boaty related - "A Salty Dog", by Procol Harum

Otherwise - "Comfortably Numb" , Pink Floyd. This can also refer to:

a) The feeling in one's bum after a long time sitting on the cockpit coaming

b) The feeling following an apres-sail malt or two.
 
With apologies to Malvina Reynolds ( and see the OGA Song Book!)

Plastic bathtubs, plastic bathtubs
Plastic bathtubs made of ticky tacky
Plastic bathtubs in marinas,
Plastic bathtubs all the same:
There's a white one one and a white one
And a white one and a white one
And they're all made out of ticky tacky
And they all look just the same.

There's a Jenneau and a Beneteau
And a Hunter and Bavaria
And a Legend and a Moody
Bigger bathtubs all the same.
There's a white one one and a white one
And a white one and a white one
And they're all made out of ticky tacky
And they all look just the same.
 
Re: With apologies to Malvina Reynolds ( and see the OGA Song Book!)

For sea songs I like Spanish Ladies, Limejuice Ship, Larboard Watch etc.

On one delivery we found the boat had a car stereo (very posh in those days) so bought a couple of tapes in Gibraltar.

The only tape that worked was Pink Floyds' Wish You Were Here, which had just come out and we played it non stop the length of the Med. It still brings back memories of younger days.

Guess what CD we're going to wear out when we go long term cruising in a few years time?
 
A New Statesman Comp. years ago asked for folk songs translated out of the original and back again, so;
'Wearing a tubular trouser the offender shall be placed in the drainways: oorah! and the lady leaps from her bed when the dawn bursts.'

(Put him in the scuppers........)
 
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OK.

What's you idea of the perfect boating song. Please, not Sailing by Rod Stewart or Mull of Kintyre by Macca.

[/ QUOTE ] Can I opt for the original version of Sailing by Sutherland Brothers and Quiver?
 
There is a theory that your song has nought to do with the lighthouse south of Plymouth, but that the "keeper of the Eddystone Light" was the landlord of a pub of that name in London's Dockland.
 
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