Saturday, October 16, 2021

Songs About Sailing - The Definitive List

  • 4 Preps - 26 miles
    "Aaliyah - ""Rock The Boat"" "
    Al Stewart - Life In Dark Water
    Arlo Guthrie - Sailor's Bonnet
    Avalon - Bryan Ferry & Roxy Music
    Basil Poledouris- The Dinghy Race (Senta) .
    Beach Boys - Kokomo
    Beach Boys - Sail On Sailor
    Beach Boys - Sloop John B
    Beca Boys - Sail on Sailor
    Billie Holiday - A Sailboat in the Moonlight
    Blondie - The Tide Is High
    Blue4s Image Ride Captain Ride
    Bob Dylan-  Shelter from the Storm
    Bobbie Darin - Beyond the Sea
    Burl Ives - Away Rio
    Burl Ives- Leave her Johnny leave her
    Burl Ives- What do you do with a drunken sailor
    Buster Poindexter- Hot hot hot
    Carbon Leaf - Home
    Cat Steven - Longer Boats
    Cat Stevens - Angel Sea
    Cat Stevens- The Wind by
    Cecilio and Kapono (from Hawaii) - Sailing
    Chris De Burgh - Sailing Away
    Christie Moore - The Voyage
    Christopher Cross - Chris Cross
    Chubawumba -Tubthumping
    Come Sail Away - Styx
    Commodores - Sail On
    Cowboy Junkies- White Sail
    Craig Toungate-Yo Ho, Ho (and A Bottle of Rum)
    Crash Test Dummies -Swimming in your Ocean
    Cream—Tales of Brave Ulysses
    CSN - Shadow Captain
    CSN - Southern Cross
    CSN&Y - Lee Shore
    CSNY  - Wooden Ships
    David Gray - Sail Away
    Dire Straits - Down To The Waterline
    Dire Straits - Singlehanded Sailor
    Doors - Land Ho
    Doors—Crystal Ship
    Double - Capt. of Her Heart
    Duran Duran - Rio
    Ella Fitzgerald- Smooth Sailing by
    Elvis Costello - Shipbuilding
    Enya - Caribbean Blue
    Enya - Orinoco Flow
    Enya - Sail Away
    Eric Bogel' - Safe in the Harbor
    Eric carmen - Boats Against The Current
    Eric Wakely - Sailing Solo
    Every Mother Son -Come on Down to my Boat Baby
    Frank Sinatra - Summer Wind
    Freddy McGregor - Big Ship Sailing
    Garth Brooks - The River
    Glenn Yarborough - Chanteyman
    Glenn Yarborough - I Could Have Been A Sailor
    Goldfinger - 99 red balloons
    Gordon Bok - Isle a Haut
    Gordon Lightfoot - Ghosts of Cape Horn
    Gordon Lightfoot - In the Lee of Christian Island
    Gordon Lightfoot—Wreck of Edmund Fitzgerald
    Grand Funk Railroad - I'm Your Captain / Closer To Home
    Grand Funk Railroad -Closer to my Home
    Grateful Dead - Ship of Fools
    Grateful Dead- Franklins Tower
    Grateful Dead- Lost Sailor
    Great Big Sea - A Boat like Gideon Brown's
    Great Big Sea - Boston & St Johns, Great Big Sea - Wave over Wave
    Great Big Sea - Captain Kidd
    Great Big Sea - Lukey
    Harry Belefonte- Day Oh (Banana Boat song)
    Harry Belefonte- Jamaca Farewell
    Ian Matthews- keep on sailing -
    Jack Johnson-  A Pirate Looks at Forty
    Jack Johnson- The Horizon has been defeated
    James White -Splendid Adventure
    Jeff Beck -Blue Wind
    Jefferson Starship—Santiago, Wooden Ships
    Jerry Jeff Walker - Pissn' in the Wind
    Jim Morris  - Key Wasted
    Jim Morris  - Laid Back
    Jim Morris -The Sailor Race
    Jimi Hendrix -  Drifting
    Jimmy Buffet - Lovely Cruise
    Jimmy Buffet - Take It Back
    Jimmy Buffet - changes in latitudes
    Jimmy Buffet - Fins
    Jimmy Buffet - Landfall
    Jimmy Buffet - Margaritaville
    Jimmy Buffet - mother ocean
    Jimmy Buffet - one particular harbor
    Jimmy Buffet - Pirate
    Jimmy Buffet - Sea of heartbreak
    Jimmy Buffet - Landfall
    Jimmy Buffet -Boats to Build
    Jimmy Buffet Sea of Heartbreak
    Jimmy Buffet- Son of a Son of a Sailor
    Jimmy Buffett - Boats To Build (with Alan Jackson)
    Jimmy Buffett - One Particular Harbor
    Jimmy Buffett - The Captain and the Kid
    Jimmy Buffett- Lovely Cruise
    Jimmy Buffett- Mother Ocean
    Joan Baez—Spanish Boots
    Joe Cocker- Sail Away
    Kalapana - Midnight Sailing
    Kenny Chesney - French Kissin' Life
    Kenny Chesney -Be as you are
    KT Tunstall - Silent Sea
    Leadbelly-Sail On, Little Girl, Sail On
    Lindisfarne - Fog on the Tyne
    Little Feat - Sailin' Shoes
    Little River Band - Cool Change
    Loggins and Messina - Vahevala
  • Loggins and Messina - Sailin' the Wind
    Looking Glass-Brandy
    Loudan Wainwright's III - Good Ship Venus
    Luka Bloom - Sunny Sailor Boy
    Lyle Lovett - If I had a boat
    Maggie reilly- Silver on the tree / angel tears
    Mark Knoppfler and James Taylor - Sailing to Philadelphia
    Mary Black - Columbus
    Men at Work - Down Under
    Michelle Shocked - It must be Luff
    Moon Mulican - I'LL SAIL MY SHIP ALONE
    Morcheeba - The Sea
    Mountain - 'Nantucket Sleighride'
    "Nick Cave -""The Ship Song
    Otis Redding - Dock of the Bay
    Paul Simon - American Tune
    Peter Frampton - sail away
    Peter, Paul & Mary - Big Boat
    Phil Ochs—Scorpion Departs, Thresher
    Queen - Sail Away Sweet Sister
    Randy Newman' - Sail away
    Rod Stewart - Sailing 4x
    Roger & the Goosebumps - 'Gilligan's Island’ to the tune of 'Stairway to Heaven'
    Roger Whittaker - The Last Farewell
    Ry Cooder/Chieftains- Coast of Malabar
    Salty Dick -  A Matlow Told Me
    Salty Dick - Christopher Columbo
    Salty Dick  North Atlantic Squadron
    Salty Dick - Priests and Nuns
    Salty Dick -The Whores of Sailortown
    Sandy denny and the strawbs - sail away to the sea
    Sonia Dada- Sail Away
    Split Enz - Six months in a leaky boat
    Stan Rogers -  Flowers of Bermuda
    Stan Rogers - Fogarty's Cove
    Stan Rogers - The Bluenose
    Stan Rogers - The wreck of the jeanie c
    Stan Rogers - White Squall
    Stan Rogers -Barrett's Privateers
    Stan Rogers -Make and Break Harbor
    Stan Rogers -The Mary Ellen Carter
    Stan Rogers,-  Sailing Down to Ol' Maui
    Sting - Valaparaiso
    Sting - Why Should I Cry for You?
    Sting The Wild Wild Sea
    Styx - Come Sail Away
    Taj Mahal - Fishin Blues
    The beautiful South - I sail this ship alone
    The Doors - Land Ho!
    The King Singers - The Skye  Boat Song
    The Muppets (from Muppet Treasure Island) - Sailing for Adventure
    Toni Childs - Where the Ocean
    Van Halen - Feels So Good
    Van Morrison - Into the Mystic
    Wagner -Ride of the Valkyries Wagner

Borrowed from Messing About in Sailboats

Go to the 8 minute mark for the sailing.

 


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