Baby Gramps: Old Man of the Sea

From: Rogues Gallery: Pirate Ballads, Sea Songs, and Chanteys, ANTI- 2006.
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Explanatory liner notes by record label ANTI-:
Baby Gramps - vocals, guitar; Philip Morgan - Irish whistle; Bill Frisell - guitar; Eyvind Kang - flute, violin
Recorded in Seattle at Bear Creek Studios - Engineered by Ryan Hadlock, assisted by Joe Hadlock & Lucas Carlyle
Sailors often attributed human qualities and consciousness to many aspects of their watery environs. Belief in mermaids, the Old Man of the Sea, malicious winds, and the like persist to this day.
Artist's page:
www.babygramps.com
Image: Connor Creagan, October 3, 2009
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Lyrics and annotations in
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This is a private video for documentary reasons. There is no copyright infringement intended. Please do not use sounds and visuals unless you are their owner.

[@reddwing4368]

Oh yes
I m afraid
I was all alone
Turning summers yellow gold into winters ivory bones
Down to the bone
Down to the bone
Then so so suddenly
i was not alone
For once
It wasn t just me
Anymore
I said with a sigh
My heart sang out free and high
A call and reel
A call and reel
Oh Yes
I still feel her in vain
She's still dancing threw my brain
Air Coursing
a threw my veins
Night and day
Just the same
Just the same
As when she was alive in the flesh here with me
With me
All those forgotten
Golden Summer days
Now
Left alone with only her bones
Only her bones
P$
(Thanks so much grandpa
Most beautiful song I ve heard in a long while
So Nice to have a grandad again too
Thanks for all of it
Everything
From the ghost on the shore) bye

[@tschuligum]

Heard on Spydermonkey Shanty Radio! Lovely!

[@moonshadow6666666]

loving this song!!!

[@mynameisnobodyz]

beautiful

[@ooshamaga]

Baby Gramps, you ARE the old man of the sea.

[@TheBrentfleming]

here my cousin, his real name is Kippy

[@thestraniero]

Long life to the eternally childish old man! From Italy's one man band...

[@ollieearl3705]

Hooray for the Old Man of the Sea and the Ginger Queen! May they live forever. Ya know ol Bob Dylan sounds more like Baby Gramps every day.

[@VoluntaristJAM]

that or Elmer Fudd

[@bridgham]

You really ARE the Ginger Queen!

[@JennyWren333]

Come to me, i, the siren of the sea...

[@neonatalpenguin]

This album is the best thing Gore Verbinski has ever been involved with.

[@boulderbug]

...Oh Oh Oh Ah Ha ! Now I'm tight

[@syl_diy]

@gingerqueen17
the shapeliest of mermaids...

[@wolfgraebel]

@gingerqueen17
Really you? Then congratulations on all levels! :)

[@BicycleFunk]

nice hair

[@aftermath66699]

Thanks

[@sstyblo]

Babba Boey

[@ethancbaker2002]

Czechitout lol this is 6 years old and it’s relevant now 😂
Baba booey

[@sstyblo]

@@ethancbaker2002 Glad someone enjoyed it, if not 6 years after the fact :-)