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Blues Image, Ride Captain Ride

Seventy-three men sailed up from the San Francisco Bay
Rolled off of their ship, and here's what they had to say
"We're callin' everyone to ride along to another shore
We can laugh our lives away and be free once more"

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Peter Hammill, The Tall Ship

Far, so far away, surely you remember
log book pages frayed

Other than the song title «the Tall Ship» … the mention of log book pages is the first hint on why this is sailing & other water-related. But you would have to read on a bit further to understand

that fanned the flames of long ago
guttered in the grate:
shadows in the embers …
look away, look for home.

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Rod Stewart, Sailing

I am sailing, I am sailing,
Home again 'cross the sea.
I am sailing, stormy waters,
To be near you, to be free.

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Ian Dury, Sink My Boats

Don’t deny that I show disrespect
Ask me why I don’t change the subject
Justify, but it has no effect
My reply is that I’ve been ship-wrecked

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Elvis Presley, The Last Farewell

There's a ship lies rigged and ready in the harbor
Tomorrow for old England she sails

I guess sailors are used to Last Farewells … as every time they set sail on some other adventure, it might be the last we will see of them. A sea, beatiful but also cruel, as she might turn on you just like that.

Far away from your land of endless sunshine
To my land full of rainy skies and gales
And I shall be aboard that ship tomorrow
Though my heart is full of tears at this farewell

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