Well, Blue Shack said he was looking for "great, powerful, serious sea songs." Not the "Blow the Man Down variety but songs like "Sailor's Prayer". (Do they have to be trad and/or anon?) I assume that "Sailor's Prayer" refers to the song that starts "I will not lay me down, this rain a-raging..." Is it that or another? A fine, weighty and moving sea song is given in the DT as "The Farewell Shanty" by Mervyn Vincent. You can hear it on the Boarding Party's tape, "Tis Our Sailing Time," from Folk Legacy. Splendid song. David Jones and the Starboard List have a song called "The Bold Princess Royal" that's a rousing story of escape from a pirate. Not so solemn, but a fine song. In the DT, too. Is there a Navy version of the Armed Forces Hymn? i.e., "Almighty Father, who doth stand / Among the men who fight by land"? I have an image in my mind of another version that is strictly about having God's protection on the sea. ???