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The authorship and origin of the song are unknown, but it bears a resemblance with the traditional Irish folk song Óró sé do bheatha abhaile due to its shared chord progression and use of repeated lyrics over melodic sequences. Melody and first verse of "Drunken Sailor", culled from R. R. Terry's The Shanty Book, Part One (1921). Play ⓘ
"Sailor" is the title of the English-language rendering of the 1959 schlager composition "Seemann (Deine Heimat ist das Meer)" originally written in German by Werner Scharfenberger and lyricist Fini Busch : featuring lyrics in English by Norman Newell (writing as David West), "Sailor" would in 1961 afford Petula Clark her first UK #1 hit ...
"Sailor Song" is a song by American singer-songwriter Gigi Perez, released as a single on July 26, 2024. Her third independent track following her release from Interscope Records, it went viral on TikTok and peaked at number 22 on the Billboard Hot 100. Outside of the United States, "Sailor Song" topped the charts in Ireland, Latvia, and the ...
Sailing, Sailing" is a song written in 1880 by Godfrey Marks, a pseudonym of British organist and composer James Frederick Swift (1847–1931). [1] [2] It is also known as "Sailing" or "Sailing, sailing, over the bounding main" (the first line of its chorus). The song's chorus is widely known and appears in many children's songbooks.
Another version of the song is this: 'Twas twenty-five or thirty years since Jack first saw the light, He came into this world of woe one dark and stormy night; He was born on board his father's ship as she was lying to, 'Bout twenty-five or thirty miles southeast of Baccalieu. CHORUS: Oh, Jack was every inch a sailor, Five and twenty years a ...
Sail On, Sailor; Sailing, Sailing; Sailor (song) The Sailor Song; A Sailor's Life; The Saucy Arethusa; Seemann (Lolita song) Seemann (Rammstein song) Ship Ahoy! (All the Nice Girls Love a Sailor) Son of a Son of a Sailor (song) The Song of the Marines; Song of the Yue Boatman
Said Ballochy Bill the sailor; "Open the door and let me in," Said Ballochy Bill the sailor. "You may sleep upon the floor," Said the fair young maiden. "To hell with the floor, I can't fuck that," Said Ballochy Bill the sailor. "You may lie down at my side," Said the fair young maiden.
The song was printed in eighteenth-century broadsides and collected by W. Percy Merrick in 1899 from Henry Hills of Lodsworth, Sussex. [1] [2] Countless recordings have been made of the song, including one version sung in 1908 by A. Lane of Winchcombe, Gloucestershire, England, recorded on phonograph by Percy Grainger; this recording can be heard on the British Library Sound Archive website.