Well, there’s so many sinking now You gotta keep thinking You can make it through these waves Acid, booze, and ass Needles, guns, and grass Lots of laughs
Joni
Blue songs are like tattoos You know I’ve been to sea before Crown and anchor me Or let me sail away Hey, blue, there is a song for you Ink on a pin Underneath the skin An empty space to fill in
OK
Once
Maybe
Twice
I Have Been Scared At Sea
Ship Hits The Fan!
“The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald”
Creds: Gordon Lightfoot — Artist & Zeezy — Vid Share
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The scariest thing to me…
Was at sea.
In the Indian Ocean, late one night
(That “IO” That Ho!)
Late at Night.
And the ship was tight.
And the waves were big.
Real big.
IO, She was angry.
And I was scared.
(No! HE Was scared).
I was never scared!
I was drinking coffee… And in between, walking on the bulkheads—all you sailors out there—can relate, and compare…
Never scared, but aside from my ‘coffee mates,” I knew, did, had done… the same drill… Too many times. (Fuckin’ Black-Shoe Navy!)
And if any of y’all find any of my ‘Sea Stories” unbelievable…The preamble to any good sea story is “This is a no-shitter…”
And then there was Melville…I’ve been around the world and once saw two white whales fuck.. I did. And there were dolphins… standing by… giggling.
I have been to Australia.
Twice
And it follows, I have been to sea before:
And here, (for you purists) is the original, stolen from “Hejira”:
