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The spray and the tempest's roar. (Chorus) A life on the ocean wave, A home on the rolling deep, Where the scattered waters rave, and the winds their revels keep, The winds, the winds, the winds their revels keep, (the winds, the winds, the winds their revels keep). Once more on the deck I stand, Of my own swift gliding craft,
A parody known as "Bobbing Up and Down Like This" — with those words interposed with the original lyrics — became popular at Boy Scout camps and elsewhere. It is also the chosen song/anthem for the Highridge Utd Football Club in Bristol, and has been known to be sung at Gloucestershire cricket games by supporters. The words are:
Rise! We sing of the best land on the Earth, the Frisian land, full of honour and glory. Chorus: It resounds and thunders far and wide, Thine ancient honour, oh Frisian soil! (2x) Despite threats from great powers, hardships, and the sea, ancient and beloved Frisian soil, Never were the steadfast bonds broken, that bound the Frisians to their ...
In the last line, the "girl who won my heart" refers to Robert Plant's daughter Carmen, (born 21 November 1968), who was three years old at the time of recording. In concert, Plant always updated the lyric to reflect her current age, as captured on the Led Zeppelin DVD which features a performance of the song at Madison Square Garden in 1973. [9]
The lyrics and meter are remarkably similar to the first six stanzas of the Egyptian Great Hymn to the Aten [2] written around 1500 BC, which celebrates the rising sun. The lyrics include Biblical references, such as the drowning of Pharaoh and his people in the Red Sea and the defeat of Goliath. Some of the lyrics are said to have been ...
“Oceans Are the Real Continents” — whose very title nudges audiences to reimagine how it is we understand the geography of the world around us — is guided by a similar type of conviction.
A vocal rendition of the chorus of "Into the Oceans and the Air" "Into the Oceans and the Air", a sea chanty, was adopted as the new service song of the NOAA Corps in 2017. It was composed by Sean Nelson, staff arranger of the United States Coast Guard Band, in recognition of which he was decorated with the NOAA Corps Commendation Medal. 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).