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The Saint Patrick's Regional Secondary Men's Chamber Choir did a cover of the song during a cultural exchange event in 2006 in Vancouver, BC. [10] The American quintet Bounding Main released a cover of the song on their 2006 album Lost at Sea. [11] UK's sea shanty band Kimber's Men released a cover of the song on their 2010 album. [12]
The song was covered by Alex Beaton and featured on his Live in Concert album, released in 2012. [3] The song was covered by American folk-punk band Mischief Brew on a 7-inch split released in 2013. [4] The Bristolian folk group The Longest Johns released a rendition of the song in 2020. [5]
And the song of our hearts shall be, While the wind and the water rave. A life on the heaving sea, A home on the bounding wave. (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,
Lyricist Norman Newell would recall that his publisher phoned him on a Friday requesting he write English lyrics for Lolita's hit "Sailor (Your Home is the Sea)": although Newell agreed to prepare the lyrics over the weekend the assignment slipped his mind until a messenger arrived Monday morning to pick up Newell's work.
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.
According to Tom Schnabel of KCRW, [3] he was told that Nina Simone's "See-line Woman" was a 19th-century seaport song about sailors coming into port (such as Charleston or New Orleans) and prostitutes waiting for them, lined up along the dock, hence the term 'sea line' (a line of women by the sea) or alternatively, "see-line" (women standing ...
Most people know about sea-level rise as a result of warming oceans and melting glaciers, but not many are aware of the fact that geological changes as a result of the last ice age are also ...
The song ideas began early in the production of the album. Crocker worked with Ligthelm later back in Australia to write more of the lyrics and Ligthelm helped deciding that the theme of the song should be about stepping into the unknown and Peter having blind trust to walk on water. Much of the melody was written over the course of 10 days at ...