Songs I Heard: Sailorsongs Pt. 2
Welcome to Part 2 of Sailorsongs, as we count down the weeks in the final month of Summer! I have decided to send her off in the best way I know how…through song. I have a fascination with the sea and a with sailing in particular. I have written songs about it, poems, and even a book. I consider it the very embodiment of mystery, adventure, and romance. I also love building themed playlists to fit various moods and was recently inspired to create one called, Sailorsongs. To help relish these last weeks of the season, I will be posting a four-part series featuring some of my favorite songs that speak to the heart of every seafaring adventurer. So, get ready to set sail… ⛵
So hoist up the John B’s sail
See how the main sail sets
Call for the captain ashore
Let me go home
Let me go home
I wanna go home, yeah, yeah
Well, I feel so broke up
I wanna go home
Well I’m on the downeaster “Alexa”
And I’m cruising through Block Island Sound
I have charted a course to the Vineyard
But tonight I am Nantucket bound
We took on diesel back in Montauk yesterday
Left this morning from the bell in Gardiner’s Bay
Like all the locals here I’ve had to sell my home
Too proud to leave, I work my fingers to the bone
And the morning will blow away
As the waves crash and fall
And the Reach like a siren sings
as she beckons and calls
As the coastline recedes from view
And the seas swell and roll
I will take from the Reach
all that she has to teach
To the depths of my soul
There’s a port on a western bay
And it serves a hundred ships a day
Lonely sailors pass the time away
And talk about their homes
Summer in our sky ships, forever, sailing the wind
Somewhere Sunday morning brings us miles from earthbound, sailing the wind
September, keeping kite time together we summon the wind
Swaying to a gentle lady’s breeze of ocean, sailing the wind
My own personal inclusion in this list is Deep Blue Sea, from the album, Luminous.
Sailing high on white capped waves
Above the salty brine
We’re traveling upon the deep blue sea
Deep blue sea
Deep blue sea
MORE:
Songs I Heard: Sailorsongs Pt. 1
Songs I Heard: Sailorsongs Pt. 3
