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Making our way down east,
Running from a storm
Running from the pace of change
Halfway to Roque
Upwind into port
I drop my anchor down and row to shore
When an old voice calls from the pier
Hey mate, there’s something that everybody knows here
The tides will rise and fall 11 feet or more
Pull your tender high up on the shore
Current running strong, swifter yet today
Full moon reflecting clear across the bay
Then to pull away & leaving just a trace of silver sand
Water lines beneath its eyes
Water lines beneath its eyes
Tides, tides,
Be mindful of the time, and know that you may be
High, low
All at once I understand
Much of life will ebb and flow
Long about 4am
I’m lying awake in bed
Thinking of what I should have said
All of the things gone wrong suddenly come in a wave as one
A cycle that is so hard to shake
Then the morning shines in to say
There’s beauty to balance all the darkness
The tides will rise and fall 11 feet or more
Pull your tender high, high up on the shore
Tides, tides
All at once I understand much of life will ebb and flow
No need to tie my heart up in a knot
Ease it gently from the rocks
History will show soon again the tides will flow
Tides, tides, ooh…
High, low, all at once I understand much of life will ebb and flow
Much of life will flow like tides
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Let Loose & Fly
04:11
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I’d like to sail the world again
Feel the wind across the waves
And live from day to day
Where life is not predictable
Wondering what is round the very next bay
I’d like to raise the sails again
Watching for the whales again
And never have to say
I wish that I had done the things
That I can’t do when I’m too old to play
To breathe again, love again
Laugh again, luff again
In real life
To stay alive throughout the tides,
Worst of times, best of times
Follow right behind
The mainsail is unfurled again
To be part of this world again
On my time
I’d like to pull the anchor in
Sail to where I’ve never been,
With sunset on our lee
Awaken to the sparkles on the water
Then I’m feeling free
To jibe again, tack again,
I am now back again, In real life
I’d like to sail the world again
Feel the wind across the waves
And live from day to day
Where life is not predictable
Wondering what is round the very next bay
I’d like to raise the sails again
Watching for the whales again
And never have to say
I wish that I had done the things
That I can’t do when I’m too old to play
I’d like to sail the world again
I’d like to sail the world again
I’d like to sail the world again
I’d like to sail the world again
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Perseid
03:29
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Now who’s your captain
Let me come aboard your ship
It takes a crew to hoist that gaff rig, ahum,
In those big kegs have you one little jigger of rum
Hey captain, Captain Noah
Let me come aboard your ship.
Aww, play one, now
We were minding our sails all day
Threw down an anchor when done
And when that fog rolled away
There’s a schooner from 1871
I said, Patch up that dinghy, grab them oars
Let’s see if we can board that ship
We’re comin’ aboard now, just us two
Looks like you’re gonna have a little more crew
Knife in my teeth and guitar on my back
We climb the rigging, just like that
Hey captain, Captain Noah,
We’re taking over your ship
Give it up now
It’s been a hundred and fifty some years
She’s been sailing these seas
With Captain Guild and Captain Sharp at the wheel
Now I’m asking you please
Hey captain, Captain Noah
You can take a day off of your shift
Let’s get on down on this windjammer
A yar vessel with that tumble home
A bow sprit on this old schooner
She’ll be taking us along
Hey captain, Captain Noah
Let us come aboard your ship
It takes a crew to hoist that gaff rig, ahum,
In those big kegs maybe there’s one last jigger of rum just for me
Hey captain, Captain Noah,
How bout we board your ship
We got some instruments comin aboard
Aww, yeah, play some music
Ooh yeah
Hey captain, Captain Noah
You let me come aboard
We’re singing two by two
How cool it is aboard your ship
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Rainy Harbor
03:05
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Sailing to Yesterday
04:14
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The last of provisions are packed in the chest
Except for some biscuits and rum
One is for Neptune and we’ll take the rest
God willing the seas don’t roll over us
Sailing to yesterday, leaving today
Soon as the tide starts falling
Then outgoing currents will carry us away
Sailing…to yesterday
The ship is now ready to sail away east
Prevailing winds on the beam
Then back to the way that life used to be
We rely on the wind, the wind and the sea
Leaving the cares of today on the shore
Leaving the carousel spinning
Listen to old men to retelling the lore
The story’s….beginning
We should be coming to Crehaven now
There through the mist, a harbor
Fishermen loading their traps in the dawn
Same as their fathers before them
Sailing to yesterday, leaving today
Soon as the tide starts falling
Then outgoing currents will carry us away
Sailing….to yesterday.
Every small village we visit on shore
Seems older than the village before
Further down east old English is spoke
And there is no lock, no lock on the door
Sailing to yesterday, leaving today
Soon as the tide starts falling
Then outgoing currents will carry us away
Sailing to yesterday, bound for Maine
Bound for Maine
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The Drunken Wellerman
04:32
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Favorable Winds
05:28
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Favorable winds accompany my journey
Won’t you smoothly ripple the sea
Like a touch I remember, sure and steady
Then I’ll soon home
Blow, won’t you be favorable winds
When we left Fire Island, come a rainy east wind
We were tacking our way ‘long the shore
A Montauk fisherman waved us in
And Block Island blew their horns
Mornings are golden ‘bove the splash of my oars
As I rowed back to our Grampian sloop
Though Cuttyhunk beckons with old shipwreck shores
And the Vineyard that Martha once grew
Favorable winds accompany my journey
Won’t you smoothly ripple the sea
Billow my sails, gentle and full
Then I’ll soon home
There have been blustery storms
And there have been days much too calm
Give me a steady wind on the beam
For the point of sail I’m on
Blow, won’t you be favorable winds
The swift Woods Hole current to Buzzards Bay
We shot through Cape Cod Canal
Wind against wave made white horses play
As seagulls plunged into the swell
Then came the crossing by day & by night,
Accompanied by dolphins & whales
Tired and glad to see Monhegan’s light,
But onward through Maine we would sail
Blow, won’t you be favorable winds
Between foggy islands we bided our time
‘Till the buoy whistle would moan
Alas, when the easterly finally arrived
‘Twas a gale that would bring us back home
The surf was raucous, the winds were whistling
Hour after hour at the helm
Many a wave splashed over the side
But we followed that storm just as well
Is my home on this Grampian sloop?
Is my home on the sea?
Is my home that cottage on shore?
Or will it soon heavenly be?
Blow, won’t you be favorable winds
Favorable winds accompany my journey
Forever at the nose may you linger no more
Won’t you be fair, my sails are ready
Then I’ll soon home
Like a touch I remember
Sure and steady
Then I’ll soon home
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Friendship
04:41
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Silver Wind
03:49
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Never thought I’d be
Many days on the open sea
I’m sailing I’m sailing
Never thought I’d say
Life is once again my way
I’m sailing I’m sailing
Out on the sea
Let me be far away where troubles never find me
I was always shy
Never took the chance but in my dreams I was sailing
Never thought I’d try
Something so unusual like running away with you
Sailing free, far away where troubles never find me
Isn’t it a fact
Just when you think you’ve got it all under your hat
Life takes one left turn
And love is on the way
Ever on the sea
Winds will change when ‘ere they please
That’s something I have learned, while
Sailing, sailing, I’m sailing, sailing, I’m sailing,
Far away where troubles never find me
I’m sailing, I’m sailing, I’m sailing, I’m sailing, away
On land leaves are heavy with dew, about to break at the stem
That is when
In the sky behind the hazy clouds the stars are hiding,
What happened to the stars, I know I’ll see them while
I’m sailing I’m sailing
What happened to my dreams, my inner child needs
Something like sailing
Out on the sea, let me be far away where troubles never find me
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Muriel Anderson Nashville, Tennessee
Multi award-winning guitarist Muriel Anderson's "Nightlight Daylight" was chosen as one of the top 10 CDs of the decade by Guitar Player Magazine, and her “Heartstrings” recording accompanied the astronauts on the space shuttle Discovery. She has performed/recorded with Chet Atkins, Les Paul, Victor Wooten, and Tommy Emmanuel, among others. ... more
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