Songs about the sea, ships, subs?

Camaero · 08-31-06, 01:48 AM

I remember a thread months ago of people posting songs about subs. I would like to see your favorite songs about the sea in general or sailing or ships or subs or whatever. I would also like to see the lyrics of it.

I like the doors so mine will be:

"Land Ho!"
Grandma loved a sailor who sailed the frozen sea.
Grandpa was that whaler and he took me on his knee.
He said son Im going crazy from living on the land
Got to find my shipmates and walk on foreign sand.
This old man was graceful with silver in his smile.
He smoked a briar pipe and he walked for country miles
Singing songs of shady sisters and old town liberty
Songs of love and songs of death, songs that set men free.
Ive got three ships and sixty men
A course for ports unread.
Ill stand at mast, let north winds blow
Till half of us are dead.
Land ho!
If I get my hands on a dollar bill
Gonna buy a bottle and drink my fill.
If I get my hands on a number five
Gonna skin that little girl alive.
If I get my hands on a number two
Come back home and marry you
Marry you, marry you.
Land ho!, land ho!
Well, if I get back home And I feel all right
You know I'm gonna love you tonight
Love tonight Love tonight
Land ho!

The Avon Lady · 08-31-06, 01:56 AM

Please, Neal, don't post that song link again!

Camaero · 08-31-06, 02:50 AM

I know not of this list Neal has but I was sort of looking for more personal favorites instead of one giant list.

Linton · 08-31-06, 04:43 AM

This chap sings about his time on submarines :http://donmac.org/SS%20Files/Comments.htm

The Avon Lady · 08-31-06, 05:01 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Linton

This chap sings about his time on submarines :http://donmac.org/SS%20Files/Comments.htm

Notice song #6: Gitmo Blues. :p

Linton · 08-31-06, 05:15 AM

AL ,I have noticed it and your point is?

Onkel Neal · 08-31-06, 06:36 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by The Avon Lady

Quote:

Originally Posted by Linton

This chap sings about his time on submarines :http://donmac.org/SS%20Files/Comments.htm

Notice song #6: Gitmo Blues. :p

I bet Torpedo in the Water has an uptempo beat.

Onkel Neal · 08-31-06, 06:35 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by The Avon Lady

Please, Neal, don't post that song link again!

Awwwe, man, I was primed to cut and paste that link

TteFAboB · 08-31-06, 01:29 PM

Somebody has to do it, BUT! let's be original, no lyrics, unless you can speak whatever they speak in Iceland:

EDIT: Ahh what the hell, you deserve one you can sing along, no clue where to get the lyrics though:

Yahoshua · 08-31-06, 05:24 PM

SPANISH LADIES
(The Yankee Version - Adapted by Roger Chartier)

Chorus:
Farewell and adieu to you fair Spanish ladies
Farewell and adieu to you ladies of Spain
For we've received orders to sail to Boston
And perhaps we shall never more see you again.

We'll rant and we'll roar like true Yankee sailors
We'll rant and we'll rave across the salt sea
Till we strike soundings in the harbor of Boston
Nantucket to home is just a few leagues
Chorus

We hove our ship to with the wind at the sou'west boys
We hove our ship to for to take soundings clear
In fifty five fathoms with a fine sandy bottom
We filled main tops'l up channel did steer
Chorus

We'll rant and we'll roar like true Yankee sailors
We'll rant and we'll rave across the salt sea
Till we strike soundings in the harbor of Boston
Great Point to home is just a few leagues
Chorus

The first land we made was a place called Nantucket
Martha's Vinyard, Woods Hole then down Buzzards Bay
We sailed then by Marion, Mattapoisett, and Fairhaven
Then bore straight away for Boston, hooray
Chorus

We'll rant and we'll roar like true Yankee sailors
We'll rant and we'll rave across the salt sea
Till we strike soundings in the harbor of Boston
The Vinyard to home is just a few leagues
Chorus

Now the Captain called out for our grand ship to anchor
We clewed up our tops'ls stuck out tacks and sheets
We stood by our stoppers, we brailed in our spankers
And anchored ahead of the noblest of fleets
Chorus

We'll rant and we'll roar like true Yankee sailors
We'll rant and we'll rave across the salt sea
Till we strike soundings in the harbor of Boston
Woods Hole to home is just a few leagues
Chorus

Let every man here drink up his full bumper,
Let every man here drink up his full bowl
And let us be jolly and drown melancholy
And drink a health to each jovial and true hearted soul
Chorus

We'll rant and we'll roar like true Yankee sailors
We'll rant and we'll rave across the salt sea
Till we strike soundings in the harbor of Boston
West Island to home is just a few leagues.
Chorus

SubConscious · 09-01-06, 08:44 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Yahoshua

Farewell and adieu to you fair Spanish ladies
Farewell and adieu to you ladies of Spain
For we've received orders to sail to Boston
And perhaps we shall never more see you again.

I can't hear this song without thinking of the movie Jaws. "We need a bigger boat!"

Here's the companion song to that one:

(Lyrics by Irving King)

Show me the way to go home,
I'm tired and I wanna go to bed.
I had a little drink about an hour ago,
And it's gone right to my head.
Where-ever I may roam,
O’r land or sea or foam.
You can always hear me singin’ this song,
Show me the way to go home!

SubConscious · 09-01-06, 08:48 AM

Dedicated to those steadfast watchmen who man their posts despite the roughest seas:

Sung to the tune of "My Bonnie lies over the Ocean"

My breakfast lies over the ocean...

My breakfast lies over the ocean
My dinner lies over the sea,
My stomach is in a commotion,
Don't mention my supper to me.

CHORUS
Bring back, bring back,
Oh bring back my bucket to me, to me . . .

I really felt rotten this morning,
They tell me I really looked pale,
My stomach gave adequate warning,
To lean far out over the rail.

The sound of a stomach in motion,
A murmuring noise inside me,
I looked down and there on the water,
Was breakfast and dinner and tea.

08-31-06, 01:48 AM	#1
Camaero The Old Man Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: USA, Massachusetts Posts: 1,477 Downloads: 18 Uploads: 0	Songs about the sea, ships, subs? I remember a thread months ago of people posting songs about subs. I would like to see your favorite songs about the sea in general or sailing or ships or subs or whatever. I would also like to see the lyrics of it. I like the doors so mine will be: "Land Ho!" Grandma loved a sailor who sailed the frozen sea. Grandpa was that whaler and he took me on his knee. He said son Im going crazy from living on the land Got to find my shipmates and walk on foreign sand. This old man was graceful with silver in his smile. He smoked a briar pipe and he walked for country miles Singing songs of shady sisters and old town liberty Songs of love and songs of death, songs that set men free. Ive got three ships and sixty men A course for ports unread. Ill stand at mast, let north winds blow Till half of us are dead. Land ho! If I get my hands on a dollar bill Gonna buy a bottle and drink my fill. If I get my hands on a number five Gonna skin that little girl alive. If I get my hands on a number two Come back home and marry you Marry you, marry you. Land ho!, land ho! Well, if I get back home And I feel all right You know I'm gonna love you tonight Love tonight Love tonight Land ho! __________________ Last edited by Camaero; 08-31-06 at 01:59 AM.

08-31-06, 01:56 AM	#2
The Avon Lady Über Mom Join Date: May 2005 Location: Jerusalem, Israel Posts: 6,147 Downloads: 5 Uploads: 0	Please, Neal, don't post that song link again! __________________ "Victory will come to us from the wombs of our women." - Houari Boumedienne, President of Algeria, Speech before the UN, 1974

08-31-06, 02:50 AM	#3
Camaero The Old Man Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: USA, Massachusetts Posts: 1,477 Downloads: 18 Uploads: 0	I know not of this list Neal has but I was sort of looking for more personal favorites instead of one giant list. __________________

08-31-06, 04:43 AM	#4
Linton Sea Lord Join Date: Dec 2003 Posts: 1,898 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	This chap sings about his time on submarines :http://donmac.org/SS%20Files/Comments.htm __________________ http://lintonsview.blogspot.com/

08-31-06, 01:29 PM	#9
TteFAboB Admiral Join Date: Oct 2004 Posts: 2,247 Downloads: 4 Uploads: 0	Somebody has to do it, BUT! let's be original, no lyrics, unless you can speak whatever they speak in Iceland: EDIT: Ahh what the hell, you deserve one you can sing along, no clue where to get the lyrics though: __________________ "Tout ce qui est exagéré est insignifiant." ("All that is exaggerated is insignificant.") - Talleyrand Last edited by TteFAboB; 08-31-06 at 01:35 PM.

08-31-06, 05:15 AM	#6
Linton Sea Lord Join Date: Dec 2003 Posts: 1,898 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	AL ,I have noticed it and your point is? __________________ http://lintonsview.blogspot.com/

08-31-06, 05:24 PM	#10
Yahoshua The Old Man Join Date: May 2006 Posts: 1,493 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	SPANISH LADIES (The Yankee Version - Adapted by Roger Chartier) Chorus: Farewell and adieu to you fair Spanish ladies Farewell and adieu to you ladies of Spain For we've received orders to sail to Boston And perhaps we shall never more see you again. We'll rant and we'll roar like true Yankee sailors We'll rant and we'll rave across the salt sea Till we strike soundings in the harbor of Boston Nantucket to home is just a few leagues Chorus We hove our ship to with the wind at the sou'west boys We hove our ship to for to take soundings clear In fifty five fathoms with a fine sandy bottom We filled main tops'l up channel did steer Chorus We'll rant and we'll roar like true Yankee sailors We'll rant and we'll rave across the salt sea Till we strike soundings in the harbor of Boston Great Point to home is just a few leagues Chorus The first land we made was a place called Nantucket Martha's Vinyard, Woods Hole then down Buzzards Bay We sailed then by Marion, Mattapoisett, and Fairhaven Then bore straight away for Boston, hooray Chorus We'll rant and we'll roar like true Yankee sailors We'll rant and we'll rave across the salt sea Till we strike soundings in the harbor of Boston The Vinyard to home is just a few leagues Chorus Now the Captain called out for our grand ship to anchor We clewed up our tops'ls stuck out tacks and sheets We stood by our stoppers, we brailed in our spankers And anchored ahead of the noblest of fleets Chorus We'll rant and we'll roar like true Yankee sailors We'll rant and we'll rave across the salt sea Till we strike soundings in the harbor of Boston Woods Hole to home is just a few leagues Chorus Let every man here drink up his full bumper, Let every man here drink up his full bowl And let us be jolly and drown melancholy And drink a health to each jovial and true hearted soul Chorus We'll rant and we'll roar like true Yankee sailors We'll rant and we'll rave across the salt sea Till we strike soundings in the harbor of Boston West Island to home is just a few leagues. Chorus __________________ Science is the organized unpredictability that strives not to set limits to mans' capabilities, but is the engine by which the limits of mans' understanding is defined-Yahoshua

09-01-06, 08:48 AM	#12
SubConscious Frogman Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Pennsylvania Posts: 309 Downloads: 102 Uploads: 0	Dedicated to those steadfast watchmen who man their posts despite the roughest seas: Sung to the tune of "My Bonnie lies over the Ocean" My breakfast lies over the ocean... My breakfast lies over the ocean My dinner lies over the sea, My stomach is in a commotion, Don't mention my supper to me. CHORUS Bring back, bring back, Oh bring back my bucket to me, to me . . . I really felt rotten this morning, They tell me I really looked pale, My stomach gave adequate warning, To lean far out over the rail. The sound of a stomach in motion, A murmuring noise inside me, I looked down and there on the water, Was breakfast and dinner and tea.