Dying Sailor To His Shipmates

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Has anyone else heard it yet? I love it... I wish Bono would do more stuff like this... he really does a good job singing folkie/traditional type songs.

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now if only we can get Báidín Fheidhlimí from Gangs of New York released :drool:


i want an album of traditional and irish folk covers from the B man :grumpy:
 
I just heard this and I agree. It is beautiful! According to an interview on u2.com with the album producer, Bono went in, recorded this in one take, and then added the harmony vocal. That's a pretty damn good first take! :drool:
 
Yeah, just like with Wild Irish Rose, it's cool to see a new element of Bono's voice come out in a song. I definitely enjoyed this one. :up:
 
Did Bono write these lyrics? I really uneducated about this piece? thanks.

it's great, very refreshing, it thats the right word. i think it's a sign that shows u2 can do whatever they want, flow in any direction they want, and be great...but do they want to?
 
I listen to it almost every night before I go to sleep

it's pretty much why I love Bono in one song, how many rock vocalists can sing like that nowadays?

The list is extremely short.
 
Great song, great vocals of Bono. I really enjoy it, but too much mmm's in it! I want more words.
 
DreamOutLoud13 said:

I'm not sure, but I think I remember reading somewhere that it's an old traditional song. So that would mean he didn't write it.

thanks, still a good song
 
The whole record is interesting. I like the Bono tune, but right now I'm enjoying "Good Ship Venus" by Loudon Wainwright III. The tune is hilarious, a fecking riot.
 
mininova.org has the complete 2 cd set. Search "Rogue's Gallery."

By the way, here are the complete lyrics for "Good Ship Venus." Loudon's version is abbreviated.

'Twas on the good ship Venus,
By Christ you should have seen us,
The figurehead was a whore in bed,
And the mast was the Captain's penis.

CHORUS:
Frigging in the rigging,
Wanking on the planking,
Masturbating on the grating,
There's fuck all else to do.

The Captain's wife was Mabel,
Whenever she was able,
She gave the crew their daily screw,
Upon the galley table,

The cabin boy's name was Kipper,
A cunning little nipper,
He lined his ass with broken glass,
And circumcised the skipper.

The ladies of the nation
Arose in indignation,
They stuffed his bum with chewing gum,
A smart retaliation.

The ship's dog's name was Rover,
We fairly bowled him over,
(The whole crew did him over,)
We ground and ground that faithful hound,
From Singapore to Dover.

The First Mate's name was Hopper,
By Christ, he had a whopper,
Twice round his neck, once round the deck,
And up his ass for a stopper.

The Captain's randy daughter,
She fell into the water,
Delighted squeals revealed that eels,
Had found her sexual quarter.

'Twas on the China Station,
To roars of approbation,
We sunk a Junk with a load of spunk,
By mutual masturbation.

The Second Mate's name was Carter,
By God, he was a farter,
When the wind wouldn't blow and the ship wouldn't go,
We'd get Carter the farter to start her.

The cook whose name was Freeman,
He was a dirty demon,
He served the crew with menstrual stew,
And foreskins fried in semen.

The Captain of that lugger,
By Christ, he was a bugger,
He wasn't fit to shovel shit,
From one ship to another.

The Third Mate's name was Wiggun,
By God, he had a big 'un,
We bashed that cock with lump of rock
For friggin in the riggin.

The next Mate's name was Andy,
By God, that man was randy,
We boiled his bum in red-hot rum,
For coming in the brandy.

The Fourth Mate's name was Morgan,
A homosexual Gorgon,
A dozen crow in rows could pose,
Upon his sexual organ,

On the trip to Buenos Aires,
We rogered all the fairies,
We got the syph at Tenneriffe,
And a dose of clap in the Canaries.

Another cook was O'Mally,
He didn't dilly dally,
He shot his bolt with a hell of a jolt,
And whitewashed half the galley.

The Captain was elated,
The Crew investigated,
The found some sand in his prostrate gland,
He had to be castrated.

Another Mate's name was Paul,
He only had one ball,
But with that cracker he'd roll terbaccer,
Around the cabin wall.

The Boatswain's name was Lester,
He was a hymen tester,
Through hymens thick he'd shove his prick
And leave it there to fester.

The engineer was McTavish,
And young girls he did ravish,
His missing tool's at Istanbul,
He was a trifle lavish.

A homo was the Purser,
He couldn't have been warser,
With all the crew he had a screw,
Until they yelled, "Oh, no sir."

'Twas in the Adriatic,
Where the water's almost static,
The rise and fall of arse and ball,
Was almost automatic.

The ship's cat's name was Hippy,
His hole was black and shitty,
But shit or not it had a twat,
The Captain showed no pity.

So now we end this serial,
Through sheer lack of material,
We wish you luck and freedom from
Diseases venereal.
 
torrents are brilliant. For a PC use their client. For a Mac, search for Tomato torrent. You'll have the whole 2 cd set in 1/2 hour.
 
Forgot to say what I thought of it... It's sort of how I imagined, yet not as melodious as I thought it would be. It does have that 'Wild Irish Rose' feel to it, but darker, more mysterious even. You definitely can feel the vast emptiness of the sea in Bono's voice.
 
Customer's review on Amazon

Hal Willner is undoubtably one of the great, creative geniuses of the American music scene. His trail of alternative, leftfield tribute albums from 1981 created an incredible soundscape - while introducing a new generation to the wonders of Nino Rota, Monk, Kurt Weill, Disney, Mingus and more.

The above five albums were works of joy, invention and an elaborate, private imagined world - where leftfield stars reinterprated long-lost classics, and mainsteam stars such as Sting and Lou Reed - found a different side to their muse.

After the above salvo Willner seems to have lost his touch; the Mingus album was an absolute wonder, creating a whole host of haunting sounds and aura. There then followed albums about Harold Arlen, Edgar Allan Poe, and Kurt Weill (again), none of which showed sureness of touch.

And then silence for ten years til now and this impressive piece of work - a burst of energy and force involving 43 songs and many, more artists - given the amount of collaborations.

It is great to have Willner back, and if not quite on form - compared to his earlier peak - well, just to have him back. This is an imaginative, stimulating journey thru the world of sea chantey songs and the world of sailing, fighting and piracy. Many of these songs deserve a wider audience, and Willner and his team have come up trumps here. And there are many classic performances by the artists: I for one am not familiar with the song 'Boney was a Warrior', which literally recounts Napoleon's military adventures in swash-buckling style.

Ultimately though this is a curate's egg. It is just too-long, too-over ambitious - as if Willner is trying to make uo for his ten year's absence. And it just covers too many styles: from sensitive, literal folk readings, to alt rock, to the celebrity culture renditions of people like the ghastly Bono - whose entry here must rank as the worst thing in his career (poss. beating his 'duet' with Sinatra, 'I've Got You Under My Skin')

A fascinating album Hal, and a great idea, but next time dont leave it so long, and maybe exercise a bit more editing and selectivity in your address book.



:hmm: i liked Bono's duet with Frank Sinatra
 
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