Nora Cleary: Farewell, Lovely Mary (2mins 37secs) Album: We've Recieved Orders to Sail (voice of the people) Topic Records TSCD662 Web link: Topic Records
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Captain Beefheart: Orange Claw Hammer (3mins 35secs) Album: Trout Mask Replica Straight 7599271962 Web Link 1: Beefheart fan site Web Link 2: Wikipedia entry
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Tom Waits: Fish & Bird (3mins 58secs) Album: Alice Epitath 66322 Web Link 1: Official Tom Waits site
BACKGROUND
I decided to choose a playlist based around the sea whilst listening to the Sea evening. These are some of my favorite songs about the sea that I have at home. As I was brought up in Cornwall the sea has always been present in my life. First is a song about leaving to go to sea, the second is about a peg-leg-father coming back to his daughter and the third is about the tragic impossibility of love sometimes when one of you is out to sea and the other is somewhere else. I love all three songs very much.