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"The Ship Song" is a song written by Nick Cave (lyrics and music), [1] originally performed by the Australian rock band Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds on their sixth studio album The Good Son (1990). It was released by Mute Records as the first single from the album on 12 March 1990, as a CD single , 7" vinyl and a 12" vinyl release.
[7] Record World called it "a moving Bob Dylan song" and that there is "joy, joy, joy in [the trio's] voices." [8] The Hollies released a banjo-driven version of the song on their 1969 album Hollies Sing Dylan. In 1972, Arlo Guthrie covered the song for the album Hobo's Lullaby, with an organ backing Guthrie.
The Last Ship is an original musical with music and lyrics by Sting and a book by Lorne Campbell. Following a UK national tour and subsequent six-week run at the Princess of Wales Theatre in Toronto, it embarked on a US national tour with the official opening at the Ahmanson Theatre , Los Angeles on 22 January 2020.
The song was released to Christian radio in the United States on 30 August 2019, becoming Burn the Ships' third official single. [1] A radio-adapted version of the song was released in digital format on 27 September 2019. [8] On 4 October 2019, For King & Country released a remix of the song by R3hab. [9]
The song was inspiration for Lars von Trier's Dogville (2003), a film about a mistreated woman who seeks revenge on her neighbors. [7] The song is paraphrased on Chico Buarque's "Geni e o Zepelim". This song is a number from his musical play Ópera do Malandro, which is based on Brecht's The Threepenny Opera. In Chico's version, Jenny (Geni ...
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In 2013, the Wellington Sea Shanty Society released a version of the song on their album Now That's What I Call Sea Shanties Vol. 1. [3] A particularly well-known rendition of the song was made by the Bristol-based a cappella musical group the Longest Johns on their collection of nautical songs Between Wind and Water in 2018. [16]
The song's title is drawn from the BBC World Service station identification in World War II and its lyrics include the lines, “London calling to the zombies of death/Quit holding out and draw ...