I don't understand why this track, in bad quality sound, is not in the album :hmm
very beatiful song, I like too much :clap :clap :clap Mark
Great track! I like the pipe songs more than the Jazzy trumpet songs.
Lovely track.. Should have been one of the 14 official album tracks.. but then which one shouldn‘t be there :hmm ;D
Great track! I like the pipe songs more than the Jazzy trumpet songs.
The folkies are used sensitively on their tracks in this album I feel; not as dominant as they usually are. This is a good thing I think. I wouldn't mind there being more songs like this if their use was more discrete like this.
Great track! I like the pipe songs more than the Jazzy trumpet songs.
The folkies are used sensitively on their tracks in this album I feel; not as dominant as they usually are. This is a good thing I think. I wouldn't mind there being more songs like this if their use was more discrete like this.
Problem now Mr G, is that we have way too much trumpet and ruddy Saxophone instead.....Grrrrrrr
I don’t know why I stopped the ladsMark actually sings:
From going for his throat
Every hand did curse the day
He signed up for the trip
And every hand did know
This was no way to run a ship
I don’t know why I stopped the *hands*
From going for his throat
Every *man* did curse the day
He signed up for the trip
And every *man* did know
This was no way to run a ship
Did you noticed that the official lyrics are wrong for this song:QuoteI don’t know why I stopped the ladsMark actually sings:
From going for his throat
Every hand did curse the day
He signed up for the trip
And every hand did know
This was no way to run a shipQuoteI don’t know why I stopped the *hands*
From going for his throat
Every *man* did curse the day
He signed up for the trip
And every *man* did know
This was no way to run a ship
I think it was Robson asking if any of the new songs could be based on novels. I thought that a very interesting question as we know MK often transforms material that he has read into songs.
However, there are already so many explanations about most of the songs without any hints to books that this one, Sky And Water, seems to me the most possible one with a literary source.
I was researching a lot about this one already.
What we have is a mutiny because of a tyrannical captain on a brig and the Captain who was not murdered by the "hands" but sent away in one of his own boats. The narrator has been lashed and knows that he will do the "hempen jig" which means hanging for mutiny, when coming home. So he and the other mutineers on the brig hope to find land to make a new life.
I found no historical mutiny that fits with the details.
The Bounty is the most famous one with many books written about, but it was no Brig and Bligh was not a tyrant.
Captain Hugh Pigot from the Hermione was a Tyrant but was hacked and killed at the mutiny of 1797.
So maybe MK does only make up a "typical" mutiny here, exemplaric, not basing on facts?
Or he re-tells the fictional story of a novel here, maybe another Patrick O'Brian novel or another author?
What strikes me is that the hanging of Mutineers is again brought up here as already in One Song At A Time which we are already discussing.
I must say I would not be too happy with MK just making it up here, but that's just the pedant in me.
The flogging captain was already portrayed in Privateering, so this song could be seen as Privateering part 2 in a way..
Any ideas? Any books/ movies known that fit with the details?
Sorry for the long post.
LE
A part of the melody reminds me "In The Heartland" from Wag The Dog.
Amazing how the song opinion changes on this album, this one i have liked since beginning but now it's starting to get really good, in my top 5 soon :D
Amazing how the song opinion changes on this album, this one i have liked since beginning but now it's starting to get really good, in my top 5 soon :D
Me too. Another bonus track better than many others that made the final cut IMHO. In fact, all three should've been on the album I think.
I love the chorus of "Marks Knopflers" in this song. You can clearly hear that all voices are MK's voices... When I listen to it I could see 5 or 6 Mark Knopflers standing next to each other and singing together, LOL
I love the chorus of "Marks Knopflers" in this song. You can clearly hear that all voices are MK's voices... When I listen to it I could see 5 or 6 Mark Knopflers standing next to each other and singing together, LOL
Yes indeed, a choir of Knopflers!!!