Music with a sailing theme

[Laurin]

Hi,

I want to compile a CD of music with a sailing theme to keep our guest occupied before our wedding ceremony.... so need to be something with a definite link to sailing, either in lyrics, title or artist, however a few tenuous links might be good to get them thinking. I tried posting this request for ideas on a wedding website but got a pretty poor response... can you guys do any better.

So far we have:

Sailing - Rod Stewart
Sail Away - David Gray
Orinoco flow - Enya

 

[Flossdog]

Only one guest for your wedding!! How about the theme from the Onedin Line, the BBC series from the 70s. It was a piece from Khachaturian's Spartacus. I don't particularly like it but most people do so must be me!

 

[tillergirl]

Sailing by - the Radio 4 theme
Voyage (Johnny Duhan)-

"I am a sailor, you're my first mate, all signed on together, we've completed our fate. Hauled up our anchor, determined not to fail, for the hearts treasure, together we set sail.

With no maps (ugh) to guide us we steered our own course, rode out the storms when the wind was gale force. Sat out the doldrums with patience and hope, working together, we learned how to cope.

Life is an ocean, love is a boat, in troubled waters, it keeps us afloat.
When we started the voyage there was just me and you.
Now gathered round us we have our own crew.

Together we're in this relationship, we built it together with care to last the whole trip
Our true destinations not marked on my charts, for we're navigating the shores of the heart.

Done by the Irish Tenors - perhaps better for the renewal of vows but something there to make people think.

Maybe better for the

 

[Emjaytoo]

(A Ship Called) Dignity - Deacon Blue
The Sloop John B - Beach Boys
The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald - Gordon Lightfoot (But then maybe not! /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif
The Downeaster 'Alexa' - Billy Joel

For the definitive all time list try here.

 

[michael_w]

Most of Jimmy Buffett's back catalogue.

 

[Lakesailor]

Or here http://www.firstboat.com/sow/archive.html

Which has some that are not on the "definitive" list.

 

[Evadne]

"My name is Calypso" - Susan Vega
"Ship of Fools" - Bob Seger
The theme from Howard's Way (if anyone can recognise it)

pathetic, I'm afraid.

 

[Emjaytoo]

Sorry - "almost" definitive all time list.

/forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[Twister_Ken]

Song to a Seabird - Joni Mitchell
Sinking - Alabama 3
Pirates - Emerson, Lake and Palmer

"Who'll make his mark
The Captain cried
To the Devil drink a toast
We'll glut the hold
With cups of gold
And we'll feed the sea with ghosts
I see your hunger for a fortune
Could be better
Served beneath my flag
If you've the stomach
For a broadside
Come aboard my pretty boys
I will take you and make you
Everything you've ever dreamed

Make fast the guns tonight we sail
When the high tide floods the bay
Cut free the lines
And square the yards
Get the black flag stowed away
The Turk the Arab and the Spaniard
Will soon have pennies on their eyes
And any other laden fancy
We will take her by surprise
I will take you and make you
Everything you've ever dreamed

Six days off the Cuban coast
When a sail ahead they spied
A Galleon of the treasure fleet
The mizzen lookout cried
Closer to the wind my boys
The mad eyed Captain roared
For every man that's alive tonight
Will be hauling gold aboard

Spare us the galleon begged
But mercy's face had fled
Blood ran from the screaming souls
The cutlass harvested
Driven to the quarter deck
The last survivor fell
She's ours my boys
The Captain grinned
And no one left to tell

The Captain rose from a silk divan
With a pistol in his fist
And shot the lock from an iron box
And a blood red ruby kissed
I give you jewelry of turquoise
A crucifix of solid gold
One hundred thousand silver pieces
It is just as I foretold
You, you see there before you
Everything you've ever dreamed

Anchored in an indigo moonlit bay
Gold eyed 'round fires
The sea thieves lay
Morning, white shells
And a pipe of clay
As the wind filled their footprints
They were far, far away

Our sails swell full
As we brave all seas
On a westward wind
To live as we please
With the wicked wild eyed woman
Of portobello town
Where we've been told
That a purse of gold
Buys any man a crown
They will serve you and cloth you
Exchange your rags
For the velvet coats of kings

Who'll drink a toast with me
I give you liberty
This town is ours - tonight

Landlord wine
And make it the finest
Make it a cup for a sea dogs thirst
Two long years of bones and beaches
Fever and leaches did their worst
So fill the night with paradise
Bring me peach and peacock
'Till I burst
But first, I want a soft touch
In the right place
I want to feel like a king tonight
Ten on the black
To beat the Frenchman
Back you dogs
Give them room to turn
Now open wide sweet Heavens gate
Tonight were gonna
See if Heaven burns
I want an angel on a gold chain
And I'll ride her to the stars
It's the last time
For a long, long time
Come the daybreak we embark
On the flood of the morning tide
Once more the ocean cried

This company will return one day
Though we feel your tears
It's the price we pay
For there's prizes to be taken
And glory to be found
Cut free the chains
Make fast your souls
We are eldorado bound
I will take you
For always, forever, together
Until Hell calls our names

Who'll drink a toast with me
To the Devil and the deep blue sea
Gold drives a man to dream"

 

[tillergirl]

Hearts of Oak - tee hee - sorry
There's an Andy Williams song - Home Lovin' Man?

"The harbour lights are calling, the moon was in its ?" something about "we've drunk the barrels dry"

 

[jamesjermain]

Blow the Wind Southerly (sung by Joan Sutherland if you're a masochist)
Full Fathoms Five (words by Shakespeare)
I saw three Ships (come sailing by)
Farewell and Adieu to You Spanish Maidens
What shall we do with the Drunken Sailor?
The Skye Boat Song


Etc

 

[Badger]

Christy Moore - The Voyage

It could have been written with you in mind /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif All sung beautifully and to a gentle Irish folk melody. Lovely sentiment for the start of your life together. Lyrics as follows:

I am a sailor, you're my first mate
We signed on together, we coupled our fate
Hauled up our anchor, determined not to fail
For the hearts treasure, together we set sail

With no maps to guide us we steered our own course
Rode out the storms when the winds were gale force
Sat out the doldrums in patience and hope
Working together we learned how to cope

Chorus:
Life is an ocean and love is a boat
In troubled water that keeps us afloat
When we started the voyage, there was just me and you
Now gathered round us, we have our own crew

Together we're in this relationship
We built it with care to last the whole trip
Our true destination's not marked on any charts
We're navigating to the shores of the heart

Chorus 2x

 

[Poignard]

Elgar's "Sea Pictures"

 

[jhr]

"Thousands are Sailing" by the Pogues.

It's about the Round the Island race. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[starboard]

Try this it is great

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Home-Sea-Dedicat...7544&sr=8-3

 

[starboard]

A full content list here

http://www.clovellyrecordings.com/Clovelly/royalmarines/Home%20From%20The%20Sea%20Page.html

 

[boatone]

Robbie Williams - Beyond The Sea

.......but she might think you're prepared to give up the boat..... /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif

Also, RW - Ain't That A Kick In The Head....."as a sailor said, quote, ain't that a hole in the boat" /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[suse]

Sailing Home, across the Ocean

S x

 

[pyrojames]

Covenant - Call the Ships to Port

verse
a choir full of longing
will call our ships to port
the countless lonely voices
like whispers in the dark

tonight we light the fires
we call our ships to port
tonight we walk on water
and tomorrow we'll be gone

 

[jhr]

"Lord Grenville" - Al Stewart.

Possibly "On the Border" as well - both from "Year of the Cat"