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Lyr Req: Sailing (Rod Stewart)

17 May 97 - 10:47 PM (#5328)
Subject: Lyrics? I Am Sailing (Rod Stewart)
From: Taff

Thanks in advance.

18 May 97 - 01:19 AM (#5332)
Subject: RE: Lyrics? I Am Sailing (Rod Stewart)
From: Kyra.comroe@vgamer.com

If you're thinking of the song I'm thinking of...
"Oh the rhythm of my heart is beating like a drum
With the words 'I love you' rolling on my tongue
Oh and never will I roam
For I know my place is home
Where the ocean meets the sky, I'll be sailing..."

Right song?

18 May 97 - 02:37 PM (#5344)
Subject: ADDPOP: I Am Sailing (Rod Stewart)
From: Peter Timmerman

Sailing, I am sailing, home again, cross the sea,
I am sailing, stormy waters, to be near you, to be free

I am flying, I am flying, like a bird, cross the sky,
I am flying, passing high clouds, to be with you, to be free.

Can you hear me? Can you hear me? Through the dark night, far away.
I am dying, forever trying, to be with you, who can say?

Yours, Peter

19 May 97 - 07:34 AM (#5367)
Subject: RE: Lyrics? I Am Sailing (Rod Stewart)
From: Taff

Thanks to both respondants - Peter's version is what I was looking for.

Thankyou

26 May 02 - 02:48 PM (#717615)
Subject: RE: Lyrics? I Am Sailing (Rod Stewart)
From: Gypsy

I am looking for Kyras version....anyone even know the title? Am going bonkers trying to find this one. thanks, all

26 May 02 - 03:03 PM (#717618)
Subject: ADDPOP: Rhythm of My Heart
From: Sorcha

Here ya go, Gypsy.

RHYTHM OF MY HEART
(Marc Jordan, John Capek)

Across the street the river runs
Down in the gutter life is slipping away
Let me still exist in another place
Running under cover of a helicopter blade

The flames are getting higher in effigy
Burning down the bridges of my memory
Love may still be alive somewhere someway
where they're downing only deer
a hundred steel towns away

Oh rhythm of my heart is beating like a drum
with the words "I love you" rolling off my tongue
No never will I roam for I know my place is home
where the ocean meets the sky
I'll be sailing

Photographs and kerosene light up my darkness
light it up, light it up
I can still feel the touch of your thin blue jeans
Running down the alley I've got my eyes all over
you baby
Oh baby

Oh the rhythm of my heart is beating like a drum
with the words "I love you" rolling off my tongue
No never will I roam for I know my place is home
where the ocean meets the sky I'll be sailing
I'll be sailing

Oh I've got lightning in my veins
shifting like the handle of a slot machine
Love may still exist in another place
I'm just yanking back the handle
no expression on my face

Oh the rhythm of my heart is beating like a drum
with the words "I love you" rolling off my tongue
Never will I roam for I know my place is home
where the ocean meets the sky
I'll be sailing

Oh the rhythm of my heart is beating like a drum
with the words "I love you" rolling off my tongue
No never will I roam for I know my place is home
where the ocean meets the sky
I'll be sailing

The rhythm of my heart is beating like a drum
with the words "I love you" rolling off my tongue
Never will I roam for I know my place is home
where the ocean meets the sky
I'll be sailing

From: http://www.geocities.com/midis_plus/rodstewart
MIDI there, too.

26 May 02 - 05:38 PM (#717676)
Subject: RE: Lyrics? I Am Sailing (Rod Stewart)
From: Celtic Soul

Peter Timmerman quotes the lyrics with which I am familar. Someone please tell me Rod Stewart didn't do this song...please for mercy's sake.

I'd recomend Grace Griffiths version on Connemaras "Siren Song" CD, personally.

26 May 02 - 09:27 PM (#717763)
Subject: RE: Lyrics? I Am Sailing (Rod Stewart)
From: alison

'fraid so Celtic Soul... it was a big hit for him in the 70's


slainte

alison

26 May 02 - 09:48 PM (#717772)
Subject: RE: Lyrics? I Am Sailing (Rod Stewart)
From: Celtic Soul

Oh, Alison...I may weep ;D

27 May 02 - 12:49 AM (#717842)
Subject: RE: Lyrics? I Am Sailing (Rod Stewart)
From: alison

sorry, but sometimes you ahve to be cruel to be kind!!... *grin*

slainte

alison

27 May 02 - 05:40 AM (#717911)
Subject: RE: Lyrics? I Am Sailing (Rod Stewart)
From: Scabby Douglas

The song was by (I think) Gavin Sutherland, who with his brother Ian formed The Sutherland Brothers (duhhh..) and Quiver.

Other notable songs were "The Arms of Mary", "The Dream Kid", "You Got Me Anyway"

I always hated Rod Stewart's cover of Sailing - the original version was stark, simple and evocative.. not lush, overorchestrated and self-indulgent. (in my opinion)

Cheers

Steven

27 May 02 - 01:31 PM (#718163)
Subject: RE: Lyrics? I Am Sailing (Rod Stewart)
From: Geoff the Duck

The original Sutherland Brothers recording was a bright up-tempo number. Rod Stewart recorded it as the theme tune to a fairly extended fly-on-the-wall documentary series following the sailors on the Royal Navy ship, the Ark Royal.
The Rod Stewart version was a dirge, and in fact ruined the song for me. It also was the time period which marked Rod's transformation form a gutsy rock and roller into what he later became.
Quack!

27 May 02 - 01:42 PM (#718176)
Subject: RE: Lyrics? I Am Sailing (Rod Stewart)
From: Gypsy

Thanks, Sorcha.....there was no way i could even begin to find it without the title! Getting the entire thing is a real plus. Did he EVER write anything? Or just find these really neat tunes, and mainstream them?

27 May 02 - 02:45 PM (#718229)
Subject: RE: Lyrics? I Am Sailing (Rod Stewart)
From: McGrath of Harlow

Well, I didn't much like Rod Stewart's version, but it's a good song. But I never heard the Sutherland Brthers version - and I can't imagine that a "bright uptempo" approach would sound too good. The tempo was the only thing I felt sounded about right in Rod Stewart's version.