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Thread #70177   Message #3469002
Posted By: JWB
20-Jan-13 - 11:51 AM
Thread Name: Origins: Homeward Bound (from Gordon Bok)
Subject: RE: Origins: Homeward Bound (from Gordon Bok)
Thanks, Jim, for the comparison. Gordon told me that the version he was given had the line "When we've dropped the deep-sea pilot o'er the rail", which he thought was pretty rough treatment for a poor pilot, so when he recorded it he changed the words to "...seen the deep-sea pilot..."