What is your all time favorite sailing song?

Come Sail Away, Styx
Drunken sailor, Various Artists
Wooden Ships, CSN and Y
Son of a Sailor, Jimmy Buffet
Sailing, Rod Stewart
Mother Ocean, Jimmy Buffet
Gilligan's Island Theme
If I had a boat, Lyle Lovett
Southern Cross, CSN and Y

Actually, I believe it's called "A Pirate Looks at Forty".

Irish Descendants- Gypsies and Lovers CD (samples may be found here:

http://www.irishdescendants.com/gypsies.html

Various Artists- Sailing on the Sea CD

"It's better to be ashore wishing you were at sea, than at sea wishing you were ashore."

(The former is generally inspired by longing, the latter by panic.)

what about sloop john b.

I was updating the music playlist on the MP3 player today,  getting it ready for some spring sailing.  I thought I would share what's on my favorite sailing songs playlist, maybe introduce my YachtPals to some new tunes.

There are a few on here that aren't exactly about sailing or boating, but if you have ever been in rough weather, or a little bit scared, you'll understand why a song like "Keep On The Sunny Side", is one of my favorite sailing songs

My Sailing Music Playlist 

Songs for Boating (in random order)

• Rogue's Gallery - Pirate Ballads, Sea Songs, and Chanteys -Andrea Corr - Caroline And Her Young Sailor Bold
• Beach Boys - Sail on Sailor
• Blue October - Into the Ocean
• Bob Marley - Don't Rock the Boat
• The Allman Brothers Band - Ramblin' Man
• Billie Holiday - A Sailboat In The Moonlight
• Bob Marley - Sun Is Shining
• Rogue's Gallery - Bob Neuwirth - Haul On The Bowline
• Bobby Darin - Beyond the Sea
• Cats Don't Dance - Little Boat On The Sea
• Chieftans Great Big Sea - Drunken Sailor
• Barenaked Ladies (Stunt) Who Needs Sleep 
• The Allman Brothers Band - Southbound
• Christopher Cross - Sailing
• Dave Matthews Band - If I Had a Boat (acoustic cover with Tim Reynolds)
• David Grey - Sail away
• Ronnie James Dio - All The Fools Sailed Away
• The Eagles - Hell Freezes Over - Sunrise
• Rogue's Gallery - Pirate Ballads, Sea Songs, and Chanteys - Eliza Carthy - Rolling Sea
• Fiona Apple - Extraordinary Machine - O Sailor
• Francoise Hardy - La Mer
• Garth Brooks - I will sail my vessel
• Harry Belafonte - The Banana Boat Song (Day-O)
• James Taylor - Mexico
• Jimmy Buffett - Cheeseburger in Paradise
• Jimmy Buffett - Son of a Son of a Sailor
• Oh Brother Where Art Thou - The Whites - Keep On The Sunny Side
• Jimmy Buffett - A Pirate Looks at Forty
• Jimmy Buffett - Changes in Latitudes, Changes in Attitudes
• John Fogerty - Sail Away
• John Mayer - Walk On the Ocean
• Disney - Little Mermaid - Under the Sea
• KT Tunstall - Silent Sea
• Lyle Lovett - If I Had A Boat
• Maroon 5 - Songs About Jane -  Track 6
• Metallica - Whiskey In The Jar
• M.O.M., Vol. 2- Music for Our Mother Ocean - Ocean
• Neil Diamond - Brother Love's Traveling Salvation Show
• Nickel Creek - This Side - Seven Wonders
• OAR - Sail Away
• Pearl Jam - Sitting by the Dock Of The Bay
• Enya - Sail Away
• The Pogues - Drunken Boat
• Norah Jones - Norah jones - Feels like home -  Sunrise
• The pogues and the dubliners - Galway bay
• Regina Spektor - Sailor Song
• Richard Thompson - Mingulay Boat Song
• Stan Rogers - BARRETT'S PRIVATEERS
• Encomium- A Tribute to Led Zeppelin - Down by the Seaside
• Rod Stewart - I Am Sailing
• Sheryl Crow - Soak Up The Sun
• Sting - Shallow Brown
• TV Themes - Love Boat Theme - Jack Jones
• South Park - Cartman sings 'Come Sail Away' by Styx
• 80's Pure disco - Don't Rock the Boat Baby
• Styx - I'm Sailing Away
• 80's Pure disco - Don't Rock the Boat Baby
• Punk Covers - Popeye the Sailor Man
• Reggae Gold 2005 Beenie Man - Row Like A Boat
• Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young - Southern Cross
• Stan Rogers - Mary Ellen Carter

So, what's on your favorite boating music playlist?

"Cool Change" by the Little River Band

Great list!

A couple more for you...

Cryan' Shames-The Sailing Ship

Freddie McGreggor-Big Ship Sailing

The Shins-Sea Legs

The Decemberists-Ocean Side

Holly Golightly-The Ship

Johnny Cash-How Highs the Water, Momma?

Echo & The Bunnymen-Seven Seas

Serge Gainsbourg-Sea, Sex, & Sun

The Ordinary Boys-Seaside

Pablo Cruise-Sailing to Paradise

Morcheeba-The Sea

The Cowsills-Captain Sad & his Ship of Fools

Quantic-TransAtlantic

Freddie Cannon-Sea Cruise

Les Serpents Noirs-Psychy Boat

Bad Brains-Sailin' On

If anyone wants any of these tracks, give me a holler and I'll send you some mp3's....

Cheers,

S. 

Sailing by a short piece by Ronald Binge has for many yeas been the introductory music to the Shipping forecast on the BBC here in the UK.

I doubt if there is a sailor anywhere in these isles who doesn’t know that piece by heart.

There were near riots in the marinas when, in the 1990s the BBC replaced the theme. They eventually reintroduced it due to popular demand.

The music so complements the poetry of the shipping area names, especially when one is snuggled up in ones bunk in a safe anchorage.

Mike

Rod Stewart - Rhythem of My Heart

Absolutely, my favorite sailing song is Day of the Clipper by Schooner Fare, especially the imagery: "the clipper's nose is plowing fields of green."  Here are the lyrics from the Outer Green Music web site:

DAY OF THE CLIPPER
Steve Romanoff (from Day of the Clipper)
Steve wrote "Day of the Clipper" in the early years of Schooner Fare.
It is the first of many Schooner Fare songs that labeled the group
with a nautical theme. Later writing has changed that label
somewhat. Schooner Fare tells the stories of Maine and Mainers and
the nautical is only one element of those stories. "Day of the Clipper" was also recorded by Tommy Makem and Liam Clancy and is very
often found in anthologies of traditional Irish songs. The song was
written during the oil crunch of the seventies when a return to sail
seemed like a logical idea. After all the wind blows free...Perhaps
those days may return after all and "the sails will mend their tatters and the masts will rise again."

You can see the squares of canvas dancing over the horizon,
You can hear the chanty wailing to the heaving of the men,
You can feel the seas up to your knees and you know the sea is risin'
And you know the clipper's day has come again.
To the men on high the bos'n's cry commands a killing strain,
ÔTil every mother's son begins to pray.
With a hearty shout she comes about and she heads into the rain,
And the ship has never seen a better day.

Sailing ships and sailing men will sail the open water,
Where the only thing that matters is the wind inside the main.
So all you loving mothers keep your eyes upon your daughters;
For the sails will mend their tatters and the masts will rise again.

Wooden beams and human dreams are all that make her go;
And the magic of the wind upon her sails.
We'd rather fight the weather than the fishes down below;
God help us if the rigging ever fails.
As the timber creaks the captain speaks above the vessel's groans
ÔTil every soul on board can hear the call.
It's nothing but the singing of the ship inside her bones,
And this is when she likes it best of all.

Where the current goes the clipper's nose is plowing fields of green.
Where fortune takes the crews we wish them well.
Where men could be when lost at sea is somewhere in between
The regions of a heaven and a hell.
Well they're sailing eastern harbors and the California shore;
If you set your mind to see them then you can.
As you count each mast go sailing past you, prouder than before,
Then you'll know the clipper's day has come again.

All of these songs are great, I also like a lot of the songs by Eric Stone. Fair winds Bruce

 Here is another I think it is called Farewell and Adieu. Unfortunately I only know the first verse and the chorus and I can’t sing so its one I sing to my self, unless well oiled.

It reminds me of that scene in the film Jaws when the three protagonists are knocking back the whiskey before setting off on their shark hunt.

Farewell and adieu unto you Spanish ladies
Farewell and adieu to you ladies of Spain
For we've received orders for to sail for old England
But we hope very soon we shall see you again.

We'll rant and we'll roar like true British sailors
We'll rant and we'll roar across the salt seas
Until we strike soundings in the Channel of Old England
From Ushant to Scilly is thirty-five leagues.

 Mike