Fleetwood Mac

[Keith at Tregenna]

A Salty Dog Lyrics

All hands on deck, we've run a float,
I heard the Captain cry.
Explore the ship, replace the cook,
Let no one leave alive.
Across the straits, around the horn,
How far can sailors fly?
A twisted path, our tortured course,
And no one left alive.

We sailed for parts unknown to man,
Where ships come home to die.
No lofty peak, nor fortress bold,
Could match our captain's eye.
Upon the seventh seasick day,
We made our port of call.
A sand so white, and sea so blue,
No mortal place at all.

We fired the guns, and burned the mast,
And rowed from ship to shore.
The captain cried, we sailors wept,
Our tears were tears of joy!
Now many moons and many Junes,
Have passed since we made land.
A Salty Dog, the seaman's log,
Your witness, my own hand.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GzCkOnGfkGg

[Keith at Tregenna]

I was always told that as a seafarer it was bad luck to capture and kill an Albatross. Yet when transcribing the diary of an 18 year old women's diary (its on the site somewhere) voyage from Swansea to Frisco on a sailing vessel in 1878, she regularly records catching (and eating) Albatross.
rgds
J.A.

Albatross

The albatross as a superstitious relic is referenced in Samuel Taylor Coleridge's well-known poem The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. It is considered very unlucky to kill an albatross; in Coleridge's poem, the narrator killed the bird and his fellow sailors eventually force him to wear the dead bird around his neck.

549. Rime of the Ancient Mariner. Samuel Taylor Coleridge. The Oxford Book of English Verse

[Jim Dixon]

We have drifted on to Albatrosses, no doubt the instrumental by Peter Green of FleetwoodMac. I was tol that all Albatrosses were the reincarnation of Blue Funnel Bosuns. Perhaps John Pruden can confirm.

[Bengy Roberts]

most albatrosses sleep while gliding in the air. BENGY

[Captain Kong]

Not many alcoholic Albatross around Jim.
The last Blu Flu bosun I was with was a real plonky.

[Keith at Tregenna]

We have drifted on to Albatrosses,

The thread began #1 with the bird and a link to the associated music track.

Guess tunes with a nautical relation are the order of the day on this thread.

EG: David Bowie - Port Of Amsterdam

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4uPZIG5BHD4

K.

[Bengy Roberts]

EG: David Bowie - Port Of Amsterdam



K.

eagles, the byrds,

[dave moore]

Also The Housemartins.

[Bengy Roberts]

Also The Housemartins.

that,s a good one

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stone the crows

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ROBIN gibb

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lieutenant PIGEON

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TERRY DACTYL,,,,, AND THE DINOSAURS

[Doc Vernon]

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