Joe-

That's a very powerful song which I've forgotten over the years, and the notes certainly add something to it.

I don't for a minute think that it's only about the "schooner people." It's about all of us, and we diminish year by year. As C. Fox Smith observed in one of her poems:

I think it's better that way for there's nothing left but change;
With the ships I knew laid up or lost, and the ports I knew grown strange...

Cheerily,
Charley Noble