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The Ship
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British folk instruments and singing - but there's a hint of a steel band rythm in the song, and it's all about coral shores...
singer songwriter acoustic folk british guitarist song celtic traditional fingerstyle scottish scotland guitar kelso
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Solo singer-songwriter and tunesmith playing British fingerstyle steel and nylon string guitar, and historic instruments. Scots and Irish influences.
I've been writing and playing songs and tunes since teenage years in folk clubs and pubs. I co-organise the Kelso Friday night live music sessions at the Cross Keys (hosted singaround 7.45-10pm) and Cobbles Inn (10-12pm open mic with The Cobbles Band) with the help of many friends. All welcome! Visit us at kelsofolkandlive co uk. It is worth clicking on the tab because the sound quality of my tracks is far higher than the auto player on this page. Many can be streamed or downloaded at 320KBps and the enhancement for solo guitar/voice far exceeds the benefit you get for highly compressed band recordings. My recordings are full dynamic, not compressed. Just select Hi-Fi for the first song, and an MP3 high bitrate window will open - you will still get a sequence of songs. Most of my downloads are free, but some 320KBps tracks are paid-for. These are selected because they make up my main instrumental album. I now have a YouTube page and have started doing some video recordings for fun: @daviddkilpatrick I have mainly played Lowden guitars since 1999. I current play a 1985 S5FN (nylon string), 1986 S22 (jumbo O-size mahogany/cedar), and 1995 S32 (small body rosewood/spruce). I also play my own 1997-built Martin 'kit' Grand Auditorium rosewood/spruce, a Sigma OM-T, Furch Little Jane, Tacoma Papoose, Guild 8-string baritone, Vintage V880 parlour guitar and Gordon Giltrap signature model, a Troubadour mahogany/spruce classical and an Adam Black 12-string. And that's just the guitars... also viola, mandolin, mandola, waldzither, bouzouki, Appalachian dulcimer, low D whistle, keyboards.
Song Info
Charts
Peak #5
Peak in subgenre #2
Author
David Kilpatrick
Rights
David Kilpatrick 1998
Uploaded
November 25, 2003
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MP3 2.9 MB 128 kbps 3:12
Story behind the song
With my wife and daughter travelling in the USA, I wrote this one day to send to them in Santa Monica. It probably took an hour or so in the afternoon to write, and then a couple of hours to record because it used both nylon and steel string guitars and a five-course short scale Scottish cittern. I play this often and it's always one which strikes a chord. I have an idea it would also work with a steel band Carribean setting; no idea why...
Lyrics
There is a ship sails on my seas Knows not where she's bound What course she has been charted on What depths she has to sound And as she sails before the breeze No harbour need be found Until she (finds) meets some coral (reef) shore And gently drifts aground And you my love know better now The meaning of my song You are the ship My love's the sea you sail upon There is a book that I have read And never turned a page A play that I have acted in With no audience and no stage There is a song within my heart Without a tune or words That voices never yet have sung And ears have never heard And you my love know better now The meaning of my words You are the sweetest melody I ever heard You are the rythm in my dance You're the beat which keeps me in time The heroine of my romance You're the word which makes The last line Rhyme There is a ship that sails my seas Knows not where she's bound What course she has been charted on What depths she has to sound And as she sails before the breeze No harbour need be found Until she meets some coral shore And gently drifts aground
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