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Thread #90289   Message #1710333
Posted By: GUEST,Guest - Chalkie
04-Apr-06 - 01:13 PM
Thread Name: Sea songs - ideas?
Subject: RE: Sea songs - ideas?
How about River Days?

A fantastic song written by Barry Temple about the closure of the Swan Hunter Yards - if memory serves me right. A really strong song, that's not slit your wrist stuff, that could be sung by a woman.

It laments the end of the Ship Building through the eyes of one of the tug boats that used to "push and shove, and help and love those giants on their way".

If you have not heard it before, it's well worth the cost of a new CD - Tomorrows Tide by Salt of the Earth - which also has some other cracking songs upon, some of which are sung by Barry's Wife, Ingrid and Danny McLeods wife, Joyce. River days is sung by Danny on the CD.

I think the Chantey Cabin will probably stock the CD. If you didn't know, the Chantey Cabin hold the worlds largest collection of maritime CD's for sale. It's worth a visit to their webb site just to browse through the CD's for sale. If you try www.chanteycabin I'm sure you'll find it.