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"Sailing" is a 1979 soft rock song written and recorded by American singer-songwriter Christopher Cross. It was released in June 1980 as the second single from his self-titled debut album (1979), which was already certified gold by this time.
Several of the early performers in the Folk genre performed and recorded a significant number of sailor songs. For example, Paul Clayton recorded the album Whaling and Sailing Songs from the Days of Moby Dick (Tradition Records) in 1956, and Burl Ives' Down to the Sea in Ships came out in the same year. Since at least the 1950s, certain ...
The Sutherland Brothers had recorded "Sailing" subsequent to completing the tracks intended for their upcoming album release Lifeboat, and that album was issued in November 1972 without the inclusion of "Sailing": included on the US edition of the Lifeboat album, "Sailing" by the Sutherland Brothers would make its UK album debut on the 1976 ...
Sail Away (David Gray song) Sail Away (Sam Neely song) Sailing (AAA song) Sailing (Christopher Cross song) Sailing (Sutherland Brothers song) Same Boat; The Saucy Arethusa; Ship Ahoy! (All the Nice Girls Love a Sailor) The Ship that Never Returned; Sink the Bismark (Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay; Six Months in a Leaky Boat; Sloop John B
"The Sweet Trinity" (Roud 122, Child 286), also known as "The Golden Vanity" or "The Golden Willow Tree", is an English folk song or sea shanty.The first surviving version, about 1635, was "Sir Walter Raleigh Sailing In The Lowlands (Shewing how the famous Ship called the Sweet Trinity was taken by a false Gally & how it was again restored by the craft of a little Sea-boy, who sunk the Gally)".
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
Sailing (AAA song) Sailing (Christopher Cross song) Sailing (Sutherland Brothers song) Sailing on the Seven Seas; Sailing, Sailing; The Sailor Song; Sandcastles in the Sand (song) Så skimrande var aldrig havet; Sea Legs (song) Sea Slumber Song; Seemann (Lolita song) Seemann (Rammstein song) Send Me a Line When I'm Across the Ocean; Seven Seas ...
The song was sung to accompany certain work tasks aboard sailing ships, especially those that required a brisk walking pace.It is believed to originate in the early 19th century or earlier, during a period when ships' crews, especially those of military vessels, were large enough to permit hauling a rope whilst simply marching along the deck.