songs about building boats/ships?

Subject: Lyr Add: SPRINGTIME AT THE BOATYARD (Jo Bell)
From: FreddyHeadey
Date: 24 Feb 16 - 04:56 AM

Not a song but the post and today's sunshine reminded me of a lovely piece of writing here

SPRINGTIME AT THE BOATYARD
Jo Bell

You can keep your cuckoos.
We hear Spring's first song
in the sound of angle-grinders,
brazen as a mating call across the yard:
the saw blades and the welders,
working between weathers
like a nesting bird; and swarf
as bright as daffodils on workshop floors.

You can keep your catkins;
we have rust like pollen on our skins.
We walk between steel shells
and smell the fresh blue boiler suits
of all the coming days,
when warmth will stretch our hulls
and make of summer evenings a shed
for building this year's stories.



Springtime at the boatyard - Jo Bell  

Subject: RE: songs about building boats/ships?
From: GUEST,leeneia
Date: 24 Feb 16 - 11:39 AM

I'm glad to see this thread. We need more songs to sing while roaring our rowboat.

Here's the URL of the group Hal and Toe singing the shanty 'Marco Polo'. Cap'n Bob provided lyrics for this in December, 2004, upthread.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHILa0wEd7A

Subject: RE: songs about building boats/ships?
From: GUEST,leeneia
Date: 24 Feb 16 - 11:43 AM

oops I meant to type "rowing our rowboat."

Subject: RE: songs about building boats/ships?
From: FreddyHeadey
Date: 24 Feb 16 - 08:44 PM

I thought you were being poetic.
Very 'Dylan Thomas'.