Songs About Boats

El Cóndor Pasa (The Condor Passes) was composed in 1913 by Daniel Alomía Robles, below in 1971 performed by Yma Sumac...

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Peruvian-American soprano sfogato Yma Sumac on tour in Italy, 28 March 1954.​

 

Boatman by the Pretty Little Goat String Band.

 

I do enjoy this thread! Thanks to all for the contributions.

 

Ditto!

 

The young and highly innovative 'Lets Eat Grandma' with 'Deep Six Textbook'



Perhaps contrary to first impressions, they are not twins, or even sisters, but childhood friends.

Let's Eat Grandma – Deep Six Textbook Lyrics | Genius Lyrics https://genius.com/Lets-eat-grandma-deep-six-textbook-lyrics:

Let's Eat Grandma, in full colour
I was so inspired by the grass, and the street, and the barbed wire
And the stars in the night, and the cat's eyes

We live our lives in the textbook, and letter by letter
I feel like standing on the desk, and screaming "I don't care"
Oh, and I was such a quiet child, oh I, was I?

I bet the starfish wonder
Why we're so obsessed
Why we feel so stressed (boring)
I wish you all the best
You're making me upset (enduring things)

We're heading straight to the east coast
It's just gone bitter
The ocean doesn't care, the waves will curl our hair
In summertime, when days collide
Say, "Why didn't we? Why didn't we?"
Go

Why why why?

 

PhilSweet posted 'a' fisherman's blues some years back, but the link has died, so I hope I'm ok to post this rather popular version by the Waterboys:

 

I saw this young woman (perhaps just 18?) supporting the incomparable Michael Hurley last Friday, at the Band Room, a tiny Salvation Army shed in the North York Moors.

Katie Lou McCabe, Boats:

B o a t s https://soundcloud.com/katie-lou-mccabe/b-o-a-t-s

 

And here's the man himself, with Blue Navigator:



The first time I saw him was about 20 years ago, in a tiny village Scoraig, in North West Scotland, only accessible by boat, or a 5 mile walk in. The gig was in the boat shed.

 

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