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Artist:Dolly Gray
Title:Reluctant Sailor
Label:  Workhorse
Country:UK
Catalogue:WHR7 / SRTX/79/CUS 543
Date:1979
Format:LP
Collection:  I Own It     I Want It 
Community: 2 Own
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TrackArtistTitleComposerRating
A1Dolly GrayThe Reluctant SailorD. GrayRate
A2Dolly GrayThe Rose MarieTrad.Rate
A3Dolly GrayRoxborough Castle / John BluntTrad. Arr. M. CarthyRate
A4Dolly GrayThe Tommy NoteTrad.Rate
A5Dolly GrayHigh GermanyTrad.Rate
A6Dolly GrayCrazy Man MichaelJoni MitchelRate
A7Dolly GrayThe Band Played Waltzing MatildaEric BogleRate
B1Dolly GrayI Was A Young LadTrad.Rate
B2Dolly GrayThree Drunken MaidensTrad.Rate
B3Dolly GrayThe Boats Are Coming HomeD. GrayRate
B4Dolly GrayLord MarlboroughTrad. Arr. N. JonesRate
B5Dolly GrayFalse Knight On The RoadTrad. Arr. T. HartRate
B6Dolly GrayMen Of The SeaJ. ConnollyRate


Comments and Reviews
 
nboldock
13th Nov 2016
 Excellent. Had no idea who Dolly Gray really was - useful information, thanks. Really good album, this.
 
 
Fokeman
2nd Nov 2016
 Copied from a Mudcat thread: Jim Gray is the Dolly Gray in question...

Subject: Lyr/Chords Add: MEN OF THE SEA (Conolly / Meek)
From: GUEST,Jim Gray
Date: 20 Aug 10 - 03:25 AM

have been singing this for years and thought it was called "Master Of Men"

This is the version I sing with the chords for verse and chorus.

Men of The Sea C (Connolly/Meek)

C F G C
At the age of fifteen I slipped out from the Humber,
F G C
my very first trip for the silver pits bound.
F G C
I was galley boy, mess-man, the lowest of callings,
F G C
but at last I was off to the trawl fishing ground
.
CHORUS
G G7
Faeroes to Labrador,
F
Bear Island Norway
C G….G7
The cold Greenland shore,
C F G7 C ….Bb…F….C
learning my trade with the men of the sea.


Long years as a deckie I hauled for my living
and I dodged on the deck from the wild Arctic gales,
knew the tight grip of fear as the cold sea swept o'er me,
and I soon learned the truth of the old trawling tales

CHORUS

And in between trips, well, the town couldn't hold me,
a two day tycoon with my head full of rum,
a girl on each arm and a pocket soon empty,
live now and pay later, there's hard days to come.

CHORUS

Now I know every Huller that tops the horizon
I've learned all the tricks of the old trawling trade.
Knew the sea as provider, betrayer, and taker,
but I've got my mates ticket, my future is made.

CHORUS

As a skipper at last I stand tall on the dockside,
from the boy to the man to the master of men.
Now the ocean is mine as we ship from the humber
and of to the sea to start learning again.

CHORUS

Hope this helps you.

I have quite a few sea songs which no-one seems to sing anymore.

Jim Gray (Stage Name Dolly Gray [Ex Royal Navy !!])

jgray@jgray.karoo.co.uk
 
 
Fokeman
2nd Nov 2016
 B6 is incorrectly credited to J. Connelly it's by John Connolly and Bill Meek and should be called "Men Of The Sea".
 
 
nboldock
27th May 2015
 Crazy Man Michael is incorrectly credited to a misspelt Joni Mitchel. It is of course by Fairport Convention and was written by Richard Thompson and Dave Swarbrick.
 

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