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What's the best sailing Song?
Strider44

Posted on 05/15/2012 5:55:16 AM PDT by strider44

The Boards have been heavy lately. Hopefully this can lighten the mood around here. Need helpsettling a family dispute.

What is the better sailing song?

Sloop John B by the Beach Boys

or Southern Cross by Crosby Stills and Nash

(the politics of the bands doesn't matter folks)

or do you have another song? IMHO these 2 are it and its a matter of degree which one is better.


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To: SpinnerWebb

Any Buffett Sailing song will do.

Greenland Whale Fisheries by the Weavers (or Bender)

Blow Ye Winds in the Morning, oh Blow Ye Winds Hi Ho.

Are You Ready Kids?

Who Lives in a Pineapple Under the Sea...Sponge Bob Square Pants!


81 posted on 05/15/2012 6:54:39 AM PDT by Conan the Librarian (The Best in Life is to crush my enemies, see them driven before me, and the Dewey Decimal System)
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To: QBFimi

That’s cool. I’ll forgive your bias!


82 posted on 05/15/2012 6:55:57 AM PDT by strider44
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To: strider44
Absolutely NO contest!

Warning: potentially offensive lyrics (if you're the easily offended type)

"Somalian Pirates We"

83 posted on 05/15/2012 6:58:42 AM PDT by Sicon ("All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." - G. Orwell)
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To: strider44
Click pic to watch video


Ride Captain Ride - Blues Image

84 posted on 05/15/2012 6:59:14 AM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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To: Lou L

I’m a UH-60 Blackhawk pilot. We hold Ride of the Valkyries sacred. It’s an air assault song. Never associated it with sailing...


85 posted on 05/15/2012 7:00:36 AM PDT by strider44
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To: strider44
In A Gadda Da Vida - Iron Butterfly

If you want to distract from the quiet beauty and peace of sailing, might as well go all the way...

86 posted on 05/15/2012 7:01:15 AM PDT by trebb ("If a man will not work, he should not eat" From 2 Thes 3)
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To: Errant
Best sailing movie ever!

Are you kidding?

Capt'n Ron

http://www.soundtrack.net/albums/database/?id=5012


87 posted on 05/15/2012 7:02:35 AM PDT by Errant
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To: strider44
1. Southern Cross (CSN)

2. Sail on Sailor (Beach Boys)

3. Sailing (Rod Stewart)

4. Sailing (Christopher Cross)

5. Ride Captain Ride (Blues Image)

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."
But no one heard them callin',
No one came at all,
'Cause they were too busy watchin'
Those old raindrops fall.

As a storm was blowin'
Out on the peaceful sea,
Seventy-three men sailed off
To history.
Ride, captain ride
Upon your mystery ship,
Be amazed at the friends
You have here on your trip.
Ride captain ride
Upon your mystery ship,
On your way to a world
That others might have missed.

88 posted on 05/15/2012 7:03:50 AM PDT by Baynative (REMEMBER: Without America there is no free world!)
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To: strider44
Jimmy Buffett's live version of Southern Cross. Click pic to watch video.


Southern Cross - Jimmy Buffett (live version)

89 posted on 05/15/2012 7:07:23 AM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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To: strider44

Tales of the Great Rum Runners, by Robert Hunter.


90 posted on 05/15/2012 7:09:51 AM PDT by dinodino
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To: Lou L

Kilgore: we come in low out of the rising sun and about a mile out we put on the music.

Lance: music?!

Kilgore: yah. I use Wagner. It scares the hell out of slopes...


91 posted on 05/15/2012 7:13:00 AM PDT by strider44
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To: strider44
Some good responses but I’m surprised nobody agrees with my two picks. I guess Buffet could be a category all his own...

There's some crossover, too - Buffett recorded a cover of Southern Cross. Might be better than the CSN original.

92 posted on 05/15/2012 7:13:35 AM PDT by Charles Martel (Endeavor to persevere...)
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To: the_devils_advocate_666

the Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald is the best! I cry every time I hear it.


93 posted on 05/15/2012 7:16:10 AM PDT by squarebarb
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To: strider44

Ripples - Genesis


94 posted on 05/15/2012 7:17:47 AM PDT by dfwgator (Don't wake up in a roadside ditch. Get rid of Romney.)
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To: tx_eggman

Right arm, right arm, right arm tx_eggman. I was just about to add this one to the list but you beat me to it. Loved playing and listening to this song. One of the all time great songs but not enough credit was ever given to it. Think I’ll go pick up one of my guitars and run through it again for old times sake.

Helping keep mankind warm for almost 65 years. Love burnin’ some dinosaurs carcasses.


95 posted on 05/15/2012 7:28:09 AM PDT by rktman
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To: strider44
Sorry, but chopper pilots suck at music selection... Nothing but destruction.

Fighter Jet In the Alps

:)

96 posted on 05/15/2012 7:30:15 AM PDT by Errant
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To: BlueLancer

I’m surprised it took 74 posts before anyone mentioned The Last Farewell.

Here’s another interesting one: Lolita
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2m8MjverT64


97 posted on 05/15/2012 7:35:16 AM PDT by smalltownslick
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To: strider44

Fare Away (Sea Shanty) - New Main Street Singers

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQIQkzJ__38&feature=related


98 posted on 05/15/2012 7:40:40 AM PDT by llmc1
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To: strider44

The Walloping Window Blind:

http://www.barefootsworld.net/windwalker/walloping.html


99 posted on 05/15/2012 7:51:31 AM PDT by Hiddigeigei ("Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish," said Dionysus - Euripides)
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To: Errant
Wind 01. Sail Locker
Wind 02. Winning
Wind 03. Windward Work
Wind 04. Downwind
Wind 05. The Break-Up
Wind 06. To Australia
Wind 07. The Dinghy Race
Wind 08. Windshadow
Wind 09. The Petroglyph
Wind 10. The Bike Ride
Wind 11. Dead Air
Wind 12. Love In The Sewers
Wind 13. The Contest
Wind 14. The Glider
Wind 15. Wind Song
Wind 16. Whomper Trials
Wind 17. Defeat
Wind 18. Irolita

100 posted on 05/15/2012 8:43:03 AM PDT by Errant
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