I'm grateful I had the opportunity to hear Tommy Makem live. Such an amazing voice. This song has always given me chills, and to hear him sing it, just amazing.
Truly inspirational. My wife was in Nepal doing charity work a few years ago and things going badly and feeling very down and alone. I sent her this song. She said it lifted her spirits and made it all worth while.
Well, a ship of the sea, a ship of state, guess what? Takes EVERYONE to come alongside, patch the rents, stop the vents and make her rise again!!! Neither can do it alone, all of you(us, and and everyone!), working together! Same pride, devotion, determination!!
I do love Makem and Clancy, but it’s awful they didn’t credit Stan Rogers. I love The Corries as well, but they did the same thing with Barrett’s Privateers. Stan wrote both of those songs, and while no one has anything against good singers singing good songs, it’s common courtesy to credit people, no? Either they were forgetting their manners, or both Makem & Clancy and The Corries thought those songs were actually traditional, which did happen with Barrett’s Privateers before, and it reached Stan; which he thought was funny. Anyhow, it could well be the latter, which is understandable. But I’d hate to think it was the former.
I'm Irish and I also thought they should have mentioned Stan at the start. I was a bit surprised I have to say. But I mean just singing his song is a tribute in itself as here we are talking about Stan so his memory lives on.
Welcome to my youtube Channel on The Clnacy Brorthers i love The Cloancy Brothers and Tommy makem i want to be a Clancy Brother i doing a four men show at Riverside Theartre Parramatta im a bigeest b Fan of All time like a true Irish Man fighting for my Countery
saw him in person three times in the very early days.....he was an actor and a fine storyteller....hence the story first, to get the spirit of the song in you....fairly common with several folk singers in NY in the very early days
