Sunday 27 August 2023

Snapshots #307: A Top Ten Songs Named After Boats


All aboard!

Ten songs with boat names in the title...


10. Known for spreading their seed.


Jethro Tull invented the seed drill.


9. Plucked from the Ashes.


That's Charlotte Hatherley, former guitarist in Ash...


The Dawn Treader is a boat in CS Lewis's Narnia novels. 

8. Hallyday Hears A Who.


Johnny Hallyday + Horton Hears A Who...


7. From the harbour, through the turnstiles, onto the bridge.


Coldspring Harbour, Turnstiles & The Bridge are all albums by...


6. Kisses on the Liffey.


The Pogues are Irish kisses; the Liffey is in Dublin.


I never get tired of watching a young Shane McGowan perform.

5. Churchwarden very angry inside bathroom. 


Inside "Churchwarden very angry" you will find den-ver. The John is the bathroom.


4. Copacabana, Bathsheba or Omaha, lads? 


They're all beaches, boys.


3. Cornershop.



2. I forgot old thong.


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1. This is the day of the expanding man.


That's the opening line of Deacon Blues by Steely Dan


Set sail for more Snapshots next Saturday...


4 comments:

  1. John Denver! The added moustache and absence of glasses had me fooled

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  2. I'm kicking myself about John Denver - I was just saying to Mr SDS this morning that there was only one unidentified person and I actually said to him, "Don't know who he is but he looks a bit like John Denver but with a moustache and no glasses" D'uh!

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