Songs About Boats

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    From the sublime

     
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    To the ridiculous:



    [Alestorm are perhaps the leading exponent of the 'Pirate Metal' genre. They have many excellent boat themed songs, which I feel honour bound to share over the weeks, but this is perhaps my favourite. Its always a delight to find a band that doesn't take itself too seriously]
     
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    This one always chokes me up...
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fhop5VuLDIQ

    Mary Ellen Carter
    - by Stan Rogers

    She went down last October in a pouring driving rain.
    The skipper, he'd been drinking and the Mate, he felt no pain.
    Too close to Three Mile Rock, and she was dealt her mortal blow,
    And the Mary Ellen Carter settled low.
    There were just us five aboard her when she finally was awash.
    We'd worked like hell to save her, all heedless of the cost.
    And the groan she gave as she went down, it caused us to proclaim
    That the Mary Ellen Carter would rise again.

    Well, the owners wrote her off; not a nickel would they spend.
    She gave twenty years of service, boys, then met her sorry end.
    But insurance paid the loss to us, they let her rest below.
    Then they laughed at us and said we had to go.
    But we talked of her all winter, some days around the clock,
    For she's worth a quarter million, afloat and at the dock.
    And with every jar that hit the bar, we swore we would remain
    And make the Mary Ellen Carter rise again.

    Rise again, rise again, that her name not be lost
    To the knowledge of men.
    Those who loved her best and were with her till the end
    Will make the Mary Ellen Carter rise again.

    All spring, now, we've been with her on a barge lent by a friend.
    Three dives a day in hard hat suit and twice I've had the bends.
    Thank God it's only sixty feet and the currents here are slow
    Or I'd never have the strength to go below.
    But we've patched her rents, stopped her vents, dogged hatch and
    porthole down.
    Put cables to her, 'fore and aft and girded her around.
    Tomorrow, noon, we hit the air and then take up the strain.
    And make the Mary Ellen Carter Rise Again.

    For we couldn't leave her there, you see, to crumble into scale.
    She'd saved our lives so many times, living through the gale
    And the laughing, drunken rats who left her to a sorry grave
    They won't be laughing in another day. . .
    And you, to whom adversity has dealt the final blow
    With smiling ******** lying to you everywhere you go
    Turn to, and put out all your strength of arm and heart and brain
    And like the Mary Ellen Carter, rise again.

    Rise again, rise again - though your heart it be broken
    And life about to end
    No matter what you've lost, be it a home, a love, a friend.
    Like the Mary Ellen Carter, rise again.
     
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    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zzuWh1Fcn0




    Sting, Valparaiso.

    Featured in the Ridley Scott film White Squall.

    Please remember to include artist and title rather than just a youtube link;-
    We can search if link doesn't work and saves clicking on songs we might already know well...
    Also means others can search the thread to avoid repeat posts...


    Chase the dog star
    Over the sea
    Home where my true love is waiting for me
    Rope the south wind
    Canvas the stars
    Harness the moonlight
    So she can safely go
    Round the Cape Horn to Valparaiso​

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    Mark Knopfler, So far from the Clyde

    A poignant requiem both for a Ship on her way to the breakers and the Shipyards that built her... From the 2009 album 'Get Lucky'.

    :(
     
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