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sleek:
Figured id post the lyrics here for review and critical opinions.
The first line is about bold sailors leaving, the rest is about every one that didnt come back to home port. The USN official song is referenced for added effect in the drink to the foam line. I wanted to add a reason to drink to the foam, give it a deaper meaning than just have a beer dedicated to the ocean.
I got tje idea for the song from a book titled There are no tomb stones in the sea.  I read that title and was taken by how profound that sentence is. I had to write it into a song.


Drop the sheets, secure the rigging
Belay the lines, anchors aweigh
Let the sails unfurl and carry us away
To the horizons before us come what may

Forgotten by time but not by tide
Its an honour to have lived a sailors life
When you drink to the foam you drink to me
For i am every sailor lost to sea.

To be forgotten by time, but not by tide,
'Neath the waves my shipmates lie
They have sliped below and there they sleep
Honored to make their graves within the sea

There are no tomb stones on the sea
Only foam and whitecaps mark the memory.
When you drink to the foam, you drink to me
For I am every sailor lost to the sea.

Drop the sheets, secure the rigging
Belay the lines, anchors aweigh
Let the sails unfurl and carry us away
To the horizons before us come what may


END

Its to be sung like an old Irish drinking song, fast paced steady tempo, with a rising and falling voice as a ship on the sea.

sleek:
If i can figure how to post a voice clip I will. I wish the forum had a way to press a microphone button to post a voice clip.

Morgan:
Awesome sleek!

Hawkdancer:
Very good!  Poignant is the right word, I think.  I will show that to Jacie, and maybe she can put the right music to it.  You might try a YouTube link to get the voice bit to post.
Hawkdancer

sleek:

--- Quote from: Hawkdancer on February 24, 2018, 11:38:41 pm ---Very good!  Poignant is the right word, I think.  I will show that to Jacie, and maybe she can put the right music to it.  You might try a YouTube link to get the voice bit to post.
Hawkdancer

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That would be great Hawk!

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