This was a request from my friend Henry, who had sung and performed with The Beach Boys after Blondie left. I re-imagined the arrangement, wondering how Willie Dixon would have recorded it if he were on psychedelics.
lyrics
I sailed an ocean, unsettled ocean
Through restful waters and deep commotion
Often frightened, unenlightened
Sail on, sail on sailor
I wrest the waters, fight Neptune's waters
Sail through the sorrows of life's marauders
Unrepenting, often empty
Sail on, sail on sailor
Sail on, sail on sailor
Caught like a sewer rat alone but I sail
Bought like a crust of bread, but oh do I wail
Seldom stumble, never crumble
Try to tumble, life's a rumble
Feel the stinging I've been given
Never ending, unrelenting
Heartbreak searing, always fearing
Never caring, persevering
Sail on, sail on sailor
Sail on, sail on sailor
I work the seaways, the gale-swept seaways
Past shipwrecked daughters of wicked waters
Uninspired, drenched and tired
Wail on, wail on sailor
Wail on, wail on sailor
Always needing, even bleeding
Never feeding all my feelings
Damn the thunder, must I blunder
There's no wonder all I'm under
Stop the crying and the lying
And the sighing and my dying
Sail on, sail on sailor
Sail on, sail on sailor
Sail on, sail on sailor
Sail on, sail on sailor
Sail on, sail on sailor
credits
from By Request,
released February 5, 2021
A.J. Croce - Piano, Organ, Harmonium, Vocals
David Barard- Bass
Gary Mallaber- Drums, Percussion
Garrett Stoner - Electric Guitar
Jim Hoke - Baritone Harmonica
Background Vocals Odessa, Calvin, Shirley Suttles and A.J. Croce
(Brian Wilson/John Rieley/Raymond Kennedy/Tandyn Almer/Van Dyke Parks) Brother Publishing Company (BMI)/Crow Cries Music (BMI)
A.J. Croce has established his reputation as a piano player and serious vocal stylist who pulls from a host of musical
traditions and anti-heroes — part New Orleans, part juke joint, part soul. His new album was born of memories of favorite artists and shows, but mostly, of late-night gatherings with groups of friends, many of them fellow musicians, with Croce at the piano taking requests....more
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