I got the year wrong - 1996.

Lyrics:

TALL SHIPS. Pete MacNab.

Hold a seashell to your ear and listen to the ocean
You can hold its roar in the palm of your hand
Close your eyes and what you’ll hear will bring to you the notion
Of sailing ships and days of yore and far-off foreign strands

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They’re tall ships, sailing up the channel
Memories of an era that we’ll never know
Tall ships, sails like bits of flannel
Remind us of a way of life that’s long, long ago.

Come with me and you will see a fine site from the headland
Just a little glimpse of the vision we had
Sailing free upon the sea, just like a long lost legend
Ships from France and Sweden and from far-off Trinidad

There’s packet ships and sloops to see, there’s barques and there are clippers
Schooners from around the world a splendid array
They come in, they’ll fill the quay with sailors crew and skippers
Shanty men still singing with their haul, haul away

So hold that seashell to your ear you know you’ll hear the ocean
See tall ships with their billowed sails before your very eyes
Find yourself down at the quay welled up with the emotion
Of seeing all those noble ships with masts that reach the sky


If you want a CD copy I can only suggest that you contact Pete.

CD tracks are as follows:
1. Heading doon the road (MacNab)
2. It takes my breath away (MacNab)
3. Fall down Billy O'Shea (Trad)
4. Run boys run (Madge)
5. Doon the brae (MacNab)
6. Handsome Molly (Trad)
7. The Purbeck Gem (MacNab)
8. Cheddar Black Rocks (MacNab)
9. Tall ships (MacNab)
10. Skipper of a clipper/Stan Hugill (MacNab)
11. Stirling Fair/Tattie Howkers (MacNab/Trad)
12. Foreshore Workers/Gillian's apples (Madge/Trad)
13. You've stolen my heart away (MacNab)
14. Jerry pub (MacNab)
15. Harry Brown (MacNab)
16. Time to ca' this nicht a day (MacNab)
17. My young man (Trad)

Recorded at the Bath Arms Cheddar
(C) Hen's Teeth Music 1996

PS: Does not have "The one eyed Cormorant" on it I am afraid!

Robin