Songs About Boats

For anyone with a 'project' boat. Grandaddy: 'The boat is in the barn'

 

CSS Alabama - Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CSS_Alabama

 

- ALESTORM - Keelhauled - it's one of their More Tranquil Songs -​

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- Nightwish - Last Of The Wilds - an Instrumental Hymn -​

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- Nightwish - Over The Hills And Far Away - and a bit about Rivers and Blue Seas -​

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Hahaha! My lads and I *love* Alestorm! This is our favourite. If you've a taste for heavy pirate metal, heavy eyeliner and heavy irony, enjoy the seven and a half minute epic that is 'Death throes of the Terrorsquid'! :

 

The magnificent, powerful work of Vic Chesnutt, with Westport Ferry:

 

Heart of the Ocean - by - Gaelic Storm​

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Botter (Dutch link)​

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This is a Dutch band​

Shocking Blue - California here I come​

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I'll think at ± 1:24 to 1:31 there's a Botter on the wall . . ​

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Next is the same band, so I'll guess that makes it boat related too . . ​

Shocking Blue - Never Marry a Railroad Man​

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‘‘ Have you been broken-hearted once or twice
If it's yes how did you feel at his first lies
If it's no you need this good advice

Never marry a Railroad man
He loves you every now and then
His heart is at his new train. No, no, no
Don't fall in love with a Railroad man
If you do forget him if you can
You're better off without him ah...

Have you ever been restless in your bed
And so lonely that your eyes became wet
Let me tell you then one thing mmm...

Never marry a Railroad man
He loves you every now and then
His heart is at his new train. No, no, no
Don't fall in love with a Railroad man
If you do forget him if you can
You're better off without him ah... ’’​

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BTW, that Botter on the wall reminds me of Mike's Shadow On The Wall . . ​

Mike Oldfield - Shadow On The Wall​

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Regarding the two penultimate videos, R.I.P. Mariska Veres, this picture is of 2006, which is also the year she died of gallbladder cancer, just 59 y/o.​

That was three weeks after the disease was discovered . . ​

 

The below video was recorded at the Folk by the Oak festival on Sunday 20 July 2014.

( Edit: P.S. - On second thought, I think the linked video was recorded a bit earlier, and later the song was also performed at the Folk by the Oak festival in 2014. )

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Nancy Kerr - (website) - ‘‘The Shores of Hispaniola’’ - this song is about 0:29 ‘‘Hawkins the dread privateer, and jol (?) of his crew’’ which describes the Elizabethan slave trade from the point of view of the lover of a man who has been enslaved . . .

I've posted a related post about John Hawkins' ship the Jesus of Lübeck on the Random Picture Thread.

 

It's Fats Waller's Birthday today:

 

Here's a quare one:
Eleanor Friedburger seems to be forging a solo career at the moment, with songs that are a bit more accessible!