When we do The Mary Ellen Carter we often explain that it's almost impossible to write a happy song about ships, because if anything interesting happens on a voyage, it's likely to result in the ship sinking, and if nothing interesting happens, what's to write a song about? Stan, we explain, got around the problem by sinking the ship in the very first line, so it had nowhere to go but up.

Kinda like Rolling Home, as done by Kendall and by Ed Trickett, 'tho.

Peter.