Ive spent the last 13 years in the navy. This song makes me cry every time I hear it. Well, not cry but I get tears in my eyes and I get all choked up. I've never been through what the sailors who use to sing songs like this did but I know exactly what that feels like to board the ship and look at your loved ones as you sail away from them and wonder when you'll see them again. You worry how they are feeling and hope they don't miss you and aren't sad but you feel guilty because you know they do. Or to be on the open sea thinking and worrying about them and to have a senior enlisted or an officer come up and say things like what you hear in this song. We complain about 9 months on a nuclear powered floating city. I really can't consider myself a sailor I think. We don't have sails for one thing. I can't imagine three years on an old sail and tackle style ship. This song is so comforting for those times when you feel really alone out there. I'm being medically separated due to injuries at sea and it's very bitter sweet. I am elated to never have to leave my family like that again but there is something so enticing and magical about being out there that I'm really going to miss. So many in the navy keep them selves to busy and bothered to really notice it but I am going to miss it a lot. You gentlemen sang this song so beautifully. Thank you so much.
Hey my man, don’t downplay your own experience. Sure, people back then may have had it worse, but that doesn’t diminish your own experience. And what this song describes seems to have been the same, across the centuries. And missing loved ones, both your loved ashore and your friends at sea is only human, and there’s no shame in shedding a tear or even a great many tears over love.
Ive spent the last 13 years in the navy. This song makes me cry every time I hear it. Well, not cry but I get tears in my eyes and I get all choked up. I've never been through what the sailors who use to sing songs like this did but I know exactly what that feels like to board the ship and look at your loved ones as you sail away from them and wonder when you'll see them again. You worry how they are feeling and hope they don't miss you and aren't sad but you feel guilty because you know they do. Or to be on the open sea thinking and worrying about them and to have a senior enlisted or an officer come up and say things like what you hear in this song. We complain about 9 months on a nuclear powered floating city. I really can't consider myself a sailor I think. We don't have sails for one thing. I can't imagine three years on an old sail and tackle style ship. This song is so comforting for those times when you feel really alone out there. I'm being medically separated due to injuries at sea and it's very bitter sweet. I am elated to never have to leave my family like that again but there is something so enticing and magical about being out there that I'm really going to miss. So many in the navy keep them selves to busy and bothered to really notice it but I am going to miss it a lot. You gentlemen sang this song so beautifully. Thank you so much.
Hey my man, don’t downplay your own experience.
Sure, people back then may have had it worse, but that doesn’t diminish your own experience. And what this song describes seems to have been the same, across the centuries. And missing loved ones, both your loved ashore and your friends at sea is only human, and there’s no shame in shedding a tear or even a great many tears over love.
@@BoarhideGaming thank you
Joshua Nicholas You are welcome my friend
@@BoarhideGaming wonderful news. My medboard has just concluded and I am recieving medical retirement with full pension and benefits!
@@joshuanicholas1096 That is great! I'm sure you deserve it mate
Cheers boys love this song greetings from cross the pond in Canada
Thanks Leo, at least we can still sing during Covid, even if not in close proximity.
this brought a tear to my eye, such a cool harmony. great job!
I've recently discovered this gem.
What a gem this is, so many emotions stirring in me now
This is so damn wholesome. I love it
beautiful, mates.
I clicked to hear bill clinton on bottom right