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...the holiday cruise compilation CD.

SWMBO would prefer that I omit Gordon Lightfoot's "Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald".

Any others to be avoided, or maybe a few for inclusion?

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Leave off : Tsunami - Manic Street Preachers

Include : Beautiful Day U2 (we often play this one when the weathers good)

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Leave off : many silly commercial songs

Add: Muppet's Theme (to be played very loudly on certain moments)
Great nautical theme songs by Marillion: Bell and the Sea, Ocean Cloud, Out of this world

Rene.

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Leave off : Firth of Fifth - Genesis

Includes the line . '..and Neptune claims another sole'

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Pity to leave that one off.... nice song, but you're right... that one line....

How about including Robert Plant - Ship of fools?

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I'd include Procol Harum's "A Salty Dog" - wonderfully evocative phrases - "We sail for parts unknown to man/where ships come home to die"

On the other hand, I'd leave off their track "The wreck of the Hesperus"

John

ps this post brings up my century (doffs helmet, acknowledges applause, raises keyboard towards the pavilion)

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"Dance Band on the Titanic" - Harry Chapin.

"Tales from Topographic Oceans" - Yes. (Nothing to do with the song title; just that you'll wish you had sunk by the time it's finished................)

On the playlist: "Bless the Weather" - John Martyn (though not his "Stormbringer"); "I want to see the Bright Lights Tonight" (particularly if they're gp fl (3)) - Richard and Linda Thompson..............

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Christmas carols always go down well, couple of years back we threw a party on board in Kioni mid afternoon and everyone was sing along to them, mind you quite a lot of cocktails had been consumed.

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Whilst on a Challenge yacht we were struggling to bring down the mainsail; on the stereo was 'When I'm Up I Can't Get Down' by The Oyster Band. A song for many occasions. I would stay away from the Beach Boys' 'Sloop John B'.

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Just thought of another one. "Once upon an Ocean" by Kevin Ayers, the original Herne Bay Hedonist.

Contains the immortal chorus "Our ship is sinking, but we don't give a damn" and could be a rousing ditty to play to the crew as your bulwarks sink below the waves.............

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For sure to leave of: Gone by Platypus

I pushed the lifeboat from the side
I'm floating aimlessly but staying for the ride.
My hull has finally sprung a leak.
I scoop the water but I'm starting to get weak.

Something has changed.
Something is wrong.
Something is gone.

More waves than I have ever seen.
And each one gets higher as I'm breaking at the seams.
The storm that just won't ever die.
I'm in the ocean and there's nowhere left to hide.

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Not a song and not to leave off - a poem Ithaca by Cavafy - about voyaging literal and metaphorical, esp metaphorical - entering unknown ports. Very Odyssey.

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As long as it gives lots of good pilotage information and doesn't include a verse about collision regs, literal or metaphorical, I'll bung it in. /forums/images/icons/smile.gif

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Cavafy

'Fraid he used to write about Colregs. What else are we to make of the poem "But Wise Men Perceive Approaching Things"?

Men know what is happening now.
The gods know the things of the future,
the full and sole possessors of all lights.
Of the future things, wise men perceive
approaching things. Their hearing

is sometimes, during serious studies,
disturbed. The mystical clamor
of approaching events reaches them.
And they heed it with reverence. While outside
on the street, the peoples hear nothing at all.

References to "The full and sole possessors of all lights" (Trinity House) "The mystical clamour of approaching events" (fog horns) and the comment that "Their hearing is sometimes, during serious studies, disturbed" ("serious studies" being an obvious euphemism for Day Skipper theory) leave little doubt what he was on about.

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Re: It may not be art.....

....but I know what I like.

There was an Old Sea Dog from Beaulieu
Who loved to go sailing in hoolies
During a sharp turn to port
His fly zip got caught
And the ship's cat got sight of his goolies.

Anon (I wish)

Now that's what I call poetry.

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Re: It may not be art.....

Love it; though I'd heard an alternative version:

Old Steve was a venerable codger
Who captured his zip on a dodger
"Good Lord! Fancy that"!
Cried his traumatised cat
"I've just caught a glimpse of his todger"!

Eat your heart out, WB Yeats.

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