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SAILOR'S VALENTINE
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This is an original sea chantey with guitar, violin and whale song.
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Uncle Steve is a Canajun Blues musician out of Providence Bay, Ontario, Canada, on Manitoulin Island, featuring the work of singer/songwriter, Derek Stephen McP
"Uncle Steve" is a Canadian singer/songwriter, who plays with an extended family of various musical buddies. Inspired by the Canadian comedians, "the Mackenzie Brothers" & their jokes, about the "Mercans" south of the border & us "Canajuns" here in the "Great White North"; Uncle Steve describes his music as "Canajun Blues"...
Song Info
Genre
World • Traditional Celtic
Charts
#6,649 today Peak #178
#224 in subgenre Peak #17
Author
lyric & music - Steve McPhail
Rights
Socan
Uploaded
November 24, 2010
Track Files
MP3
MP3 5.2 MB • 128 kbps • 5:40
Story behind the song
I caught an episode of the "antique roadshow", while in Halifax; and, a couple from a seafaring family brought in a "sailor's valentine": what looked like a glass book, with multi-colored tiny shells sandwiched between glass, revealing on one side a "valentine heart" and on the other side a "compass rose". (the compass rose is an octogon shaped image, set on maps/charts to show the cardinal directions. apparently, sailors on their lonely two year circuit of the globe, would collect shells at their ports of call, to make these for their sweethearts back home.
Lyrics
SAILOR'S VALENTINE lyric & music by Steve McPhail PUNCH-DRUNK FIGHTER NUMB TO THE POUNDING THIS SHIP CAREENS FROM WAVE TO THE NEXT... WALKING DEAD CREW STAGGER THEIR WATCH CONVINCED OF OUR DOOM, THE CAPTAIN'S BEEN HEXED... GRINDING THEIR TEETH & CRACKING THEIR KNUCKLES BANSHEES WEEP & THEY WAIL... CANNIBAL COMBERS CHEW 'ROUND THE EDGES WHAT'S LEFT OF OUR TATTERED SAIL... MY COMPASS ROSE THROUGH DANGEROUS SEAS... SAILOR'S VALENTINE... MY ONLY ABIDING DESTINATION... SAILOR'S VALENTINE... UP IN THE RIGGING, HAPPY AS PIE... DANCING WITH FROZEN FINGERS & FEET... SAFE IN MY HEART, THE MEMORY OF YOU... FOOD FOR MY SOUL, ALL THAT I NEED... MIGHT SAY IT'S JUST A MIRAGE... DELUSION OF THE SLEEP DEPRIVED... RAPTURE THAT COMES DIVING TOO DEEP... OR, I'M JUST SIMPLY OUT OF MY MIND... ANYWAY YOU WANT TO LOOK AT IT... MAKES ME FEEL JUST FINE... THE JOY JUST THINKING OF YOU... IS MY SAILOR'S VALENTINE... MY MORNING STAR IN A CLEARING SKY... SAILOR'S VALENTINE... MY ONLY ABIDING DESTINATION... SAILOR'S VALENTINE...
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