To continue the transportation theme, name some songs with boats in them.

[slj0101]

"Havana Affair," by the Ramones:

"PT boat on the way to Havana,
I used to make a living man, picking a banana,
now I'm a guide for the CIA,
hooray for the USA."

[cloudbase]

1. Lyle Lovett

If I Had a Boat

[taterguy]

2. Mojo Nixon's Elvis Is Everywhere

His explanation of the Bermuda Triangle is that
Elvis needs boats

[Tyler Durden]

3. "I want to get you on a slow boat to China..."

"...All to myself, alone...."

Always liked to dance to that one.

[Katina]

4. Ship of Fools

ROBERT PLANT
Ship Of Fools

On waves of love my heart is breaking
And stranger still my self control I can't rely on anymore
New tides surprise - my world it's changing
Within this frame an ocean swells - behind this smile I know it well

Beneath a lover's moon I'm waiting
I am the pilot of the storm - adrift in pleasure I may drown
I built this ship - it is my making
And furthermore my self control I can't rely on anymore
I know why - I know why
Crazy on a ship of fools
Crazy on a ship of fools
Turn this boat around - back to my loving ground

Who claims that no man is an island
While I land up in jeopardy - more distant from you by degrees
I walk this shore in isolation
And at my feet eternity draws ever sweeter plans for me
I know why - I know why
Crazy on a ship of fools
Crazy on a ship of fools
Turn this boat around - back to my loving ground
Oh no, oh no - ship of fools --

[SteppingRazor]

23. Also, Ship of Fools:

Jerry Garcia/Robert Hunter

Went to see the captain, strangest I could find,
Laid my proposition down, laid it on the line.
I wont slave for beggars pay, likewise gold and jewels,
But I would slave to learn the way to sink your ship of fools.

Ship of fools on a cruel sea, ship of fools sail away from me.
It was later than I thought when I first believed you,
Now I cannot share your laughter, ship of fools.

Saw your first ship sink and drown, from rockin of the boat,
And all that could not sink or swim was just left there to float.
I wont leave you drifting down, but woh it makes me wild,
With thirty years upon my head to have you call me child.

Ship of fools on a cruel sea, ship of fools sail away from me.
It was later than I thought when I first believed you,
Now I cannot share your laughter, ship of fools.

The bottles stand as empty, as they were filled before.
Time there was and plenty, but from that cup no more.
Though I could not caution all, I still might warn a few:
Dont lend your hand to raise no flag atop no ship of fools.

Ship of fools on a cruel sea, ship of fools sail away from me.
It was later than I thought, when I first believed you,
Now I cannot share your laughter, ship of fools.

It was later than I thought when I first believed you,
Now I cannot share your laughter, ship of fools.

[HuskerDU]

5. 'Bad Detective' by the Coasters (written by Lieber and Stoller)

Well I got a tip from China
They stole old Budda's gong
So I took an ocean liner
Over to old Hong Kong

Bob Dylan- 'When the ship comes in'- my favorite Dylan tune

[Blue-Jay]

6. The Wreck of The Edmund Fitzgerald

:puke:

[Left Is Write]

7. Calypso.

[Left Is Write]

8. Sloop John B.

[XNASA]

14. I imagine that's the definitive 'Boat Song'.

And BTW, Thanks for stealing my pick. ;-)

[terrya]

9. "Rock the Boat"

Disco song from the 70's.

I know, pure shite, but it's all I could come up with.

[EstimatedProphet]

10. US Blues - Grateful Dead

[Hobarticus]

11. Six Months In A Leaky Boat...

by Split Enz!

When I was a young boy
I wanted to sail around the world
That's the life for me, living on the sea
Spirit of a sailor, circumnavigates the globe
The lust of a pioneer, will acknowledge
No frontier
I remember you by, thunderclap in the sky
Lightning flash, tempers flare,
'round the horn if you dare
I just spent six months in a leaky boat
Lucky just to keep afloat...

[greendog]

12. "The Mary Ellen Carter" ... Stan Rogers

[eyepaddle]

13. Wooden Ships

They're really a metaphor--but you certainly hear about 'em a bunch.

[jobycom]

15. Proud Mary. nt

[XNASA]

16. 'Boots of Spanish Leather'

Oh I'm sailin' away my own true love
I'm sailin' away in the morning
Is there something I can send you from across the sea
From the place that I'll be landing ?

No, there's nothin' you can send me, my own true love
There's nothin' I wish to be ownin'
Just carry yourself back to me unspoiled
From across that lonesome ocean.

[Blue-Jay]

17. Highwayman, second verse:

I was a sailor. I was born upon the tide
And with the sea I did abide.
I sailed a schooner round the Horn to Mexico
I went aloft and furled the mainsail in a blow
And when the yards broke off they said that I got killed
But I am living still.

[guitar man]

18. Take a Ride on a Riverboat

by LeRoux

[jobycom]

19. Here's one, sort of. "The night they drove old Dixie down," but only the Joan Baez version.

The original had a line:

Back with my wife in Tennessee
And one day she said to me,
"Virgil, Quick! Come see!
There goes Robert E. Lee."

Baez misheard it, and recorded "There goes the Robert E. Lee," making it into a riverboat.

[Joe Fields]

20. The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald

[Smooth Operator]

21. Proud Mary

CCR and Tina Turner.

[Burma Jones]

22. Desolation Row - Bob Dylan

Praise be to Nero's Neptune
The Titanic sails at dawn
And everybody's shouting
"Which Side Are You On?"
And Ezra Pound and T. S. Eliot
Fighting in the captain's tower
While calypso singers laugh at them
And fishermen hold flowers
Between the windows of the sea
Where lovely mermaids flow
And nobody has to think too much
About Desolation Row

[Javaman]

24. Sigh...the Ramones. I miss them. nt

[malta blue]

25. Southern Cross - C, S, N

Got out of town on a boat
Goin' to Southern islands.
Sailing a reach
Before a followin' sea.
She was makin' for the trades
On the outside,
And the downhill run
To Papeete.
Off the wind on this heading
Lie the Marquesas.
We got eighty feet of the waterline.
Nicely making way.
In a noisy bar in Avalon
I tried to call you.
But on a midnight watch I realized
Why twice you ran away.
Chorus
Think about how many times
I have fallen
Spirits are using me
larger voices callin'.
What heaven brought you and me
Cannot be forgotten.
I have been around the world,
Lookin' for that woman/girl,
Who knows love can endure.
And you know it will.
And you know it will.
When you see the Southern Cross
For the first time
You understand now
Why you came this way
'Cause the truth you might be runnin' from
Is so small.
But it's as big as the promise
The promise of a comin' day.
So I'm sailing for tomorrow
My dreams are a dyin'.
And my love is an anchor tied to you
Tied with a silver chain.
I have my ship
And all her flags are a flyin'
She is all that I have left
And music is her name.
Chorus
Think about how many times
I have fallen
Spirits are using me
larger voices callin'.
What heaven brought you and me
Cannot be forgotten.
I have been around the world,
Lookin' for that woma/girl,
Who knows love can endure.
And you know it will.
And you know it will.
So we cheated and we lied
And we tested
And we never failed to fail
It was the easiest thing to do.
You will survive being bested.
Somebody fine
Will come along
Make me forget about loving you.
At the Southern Cross

[MissMillie]

26. Every Picture Tells a Story by Rod Stewart (references the Peking Mary)

or is it Peking Ferry? I forget.

:hi:

(on edit: it is the Peking Ferry)

[Fire Walk With Me]

27. The Love Boat

Promises something for everyone.

[taterguy]

28. There's A Boat That's Leaving, Armstrong and Fitzgerald

[BrotherBuzz]

29. Ride, Captain Ride by Blues Image

Ride, Captain Ride
by 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 into 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

Ride, captain ride upon your mystery ship
Be amazed at the friends you have here on your trip

[IcyPeas]

30. Ferry 'cross the Mersey

[Blue-Jay]

31. If Peter Tosh had been in the Monkees instead of Peter Tork:

Take the last boat to Kingston, and I will meet you in Jamaica
The last boat to Kingston, you might need to bring the ganga, la la la...

[Strawman]

32. Sailing: Christopher Cross

Earworm!

:banghead:

[Strawman]

34. The Last Unicorn: The Irish Rovers

:banghead:

[borlis]

33. "Dreamboat Annie" by Heart

A great song and album.

[Joe Fields]

35. the ballad of the titanic

[MAGICBULLET]

36. Does Yellow Submarine count??

or how about Seasick Yet Still Docked - Morrissey