Top 10 Sailing Songs

1. Sailing take Me Away – Christopher Cross 

2. "Son of a Son of a Sailor" - Jimmy Buffet

3. "Sloop John B" - Beach Boys

4. "Wreck of Edmund Fitzgerald" - Gordon Lightfoot

5. "Sail On" - Commodors

6. "Sail Away" - Joe Cocker

7. "Brandy " - Looking Glass

8."The Mary Ellen Carter" - Stan Rogers

9. "Sailing" - Rod Stewart

10. "Sail Away" - David Gray

 

Full List

 

Aaliyah - Rock The Boat

Al Stewart - Life In Dark Water

Arlo Guthrie - Sailor's Bonnet

Avalon - Bryan Ferry & Roxy MusicBasil

Poledouris- The Dinghy Race (Senta) .

Beach Boys - Sloop John B

Beach Boys- Kokomo

Beca Boys - Sail on Sailor

Billie Holiday - A Sailboat in the Moonlight

Blondie - The Tide Is High

Blue4s Image Ride Captain Ride

Bob Dylan- Shelter from the Storm

Bobbie Darin - Beyond the Sea

Burl Ives - Away Rio

Burl Ives- Leave her Johnny leave her

Burl Ives- What do you do with a drunken sailor

Buster Poindexter- Hot hot hot

Carbon Leaf - Home

Cat Steven - Longer Boats

Cat Stevens - Angel Sea

Cat Stevens- The Wind by Cecilio and Kapono (from Hawaii) - Sailing

Chris De Burgh - Sailing Away

Christie Moore - The Voyage

Christopher Cross - Chris Cross

Chubawumba -Tubthumping

Come Sail Away - Styx

Commodores - Sail On

Cowboy Junkies- White Sail

Craig Toungate-Yo Ho, Ho (and A Bottle of Rum)

Crash Test Dummies -Swimming in your Ocean Cream—Tales of Brave Ulysses

CSN - Shadow Captain

CSN - Southern Cross

CSN&Y - Lee Shore

CSNY - Wooden Ships

David Gray - Sail Away

Dire Straits - Down To The Waterline

Dire Straits - Singlehanded Sailor

Doors - Land Ho

Doors—Crystal Ship

Double - Capt. of Her Heart

Duran Duran - Rio

Ella Fitzgerald- Smooth Sailing by

Elvis Costello - Shipbuilding

Enya - Caribbean Blue

Enya - Orinoco Flow

Enya - Sail Away

Eric Bogel' - Safe in the Harbor

Eric carmen - Boats Against The Current

Eric Wakely - Sailing Solo

Every Mother Son -Come on Down to my Boat Baby

Frank Sinatra - Summer Wind

Freddy McGregor - Big Ship Sailing

Garth Brooks - The River

Glenn Yarborough - Chanteyman

Glenn Yarborough - I Could Have Been A Sailor

Goldfinger - 99 red balloons

Gordon Bok - Isle a Haut

Gordon Lightfoot - Ghosts of Cape Horn

Gordon Lightfoot - In the Lee of Christian Island

Gordon Lightfoot—Wreck of Edmund Fitzgerald

Grand Funk Railroad - I'm Your Captain / Closer To Home

Grand Funk Railroad -Closer to my Home

Grateful Dead - Ship of Fools

Grateful Dead- Franklins Tower

Grateful Dead- Lost Sailor

Great Big Sea - A Boat like Gideon Brown's

Great Big Sea - Boston & St Johns

Great Big Sea - Wave over Wave

Great Big Sea - Captain Kidd

Great Big Sea - Lukey

Harry Belefonte- Day Oh (Banana Boat song)

Harry Belefonte- Jamaca Farewell

Ian Matthews- keep on sailing

Jack Johnson- A Pirate Looks at Forty

Jack Johnson- The Horizon has been defeated

James White -Splendid Adventure

Jeff Beck -Blue Wind

Jefferson Starship—Santiago, Wooden Ships

Jerry Jeff Walker - Pissn' in the Wind

Jim Morris - Key Wasted

Jim Morris - Laid Back

Jim Morris -The Sailor Race

Jimi Hendrix - Drifting

Jimmy Buffet - Lovely Cruise

Jimmy Buffet - Take It Back

Jimmy Buffet - changes in latitudes

Jimmy Buffet - Fins

Jimmy Buffet - Landfall

Jimmy Buffet - Margaritaville

Jimmy Buffet - mother ocean

Jimmy Buffet - one particular harbor

Jimmy Buffet - Pirate

Jimmy Buffet - Sea of heartbreak

Jimmy Buffet - Landfall

Jimmy Buffet -Boats to Build

Jimmy Buffet Sea of Heartbreak

Jimmy Buffet- Son of a Son of a Sailor

Jimmy Buffett - Boats To Build (with Alan Jackson)

Jimmy Buffett - One Particular Harbor

Jimmy Buffett - The Captain and the Kid

Jimmy Buffett- Lovely Cruise

Jimmy Buffett- Mother Ocean

Joan Baez—Spanish Boots

Joe Cocker- Sail Away

Kalapana - Midnight Sailing

Kenny Chesney - French Kissin' Life

Kenny Chesney -Be as you are

KT Tunstall - Silent Sea

Leadbelly-Sail On

Little Girl Sail On

Lindisfarne - Fog on the Tyne

Little Feat - Sailin' Shoes

Little River Band - Cool Change

Loggins and Messina - Vahevala

Looking Glass-Brandy

Loudan Wainwright's III - Good Ship Venus

Luka Bloom - Sunny Sailor Boy

Lyle Lovett - If I had a boat

Maggie reilly- Silver on the tree / angel tears

Mark Knoppfler and James Taylor - Sailing to Philadelphia

Mary Black - Columbus

Men at Work - Down Under

Michelle Shocked - It must be Luff

Moon Mulican - I'LL SAIL MY SHIP ALONE

Morcheeba - The SeaMountain - 'Nantucket Sleighride'"Nick Cave " "The Ship Song"

Otis Redding - Dock of the Bay

Paul Simon - American Tune

Peter Frampton - sail away

Peter, Paul & Mary - Big Boat

Phil Ochs—Scorpion Departs, Thresher

Queen - Sail Away Sweet Sister

Randy Newman' - Sail away

Rod Stewart - Sailing

Roger & the Goosebumps - 'Gilligan's Island’ to the tune of 'Stairway to Heaven'

Roger Whittaker - The Last Farewell

Ry Cooder/Chieftains- Coast of Malabar

Sandy Denny and the Strawbs - sail away to the sea

Sonia Dada- Sail Away

Split Enz - Six months in a leaky boat

Stan Rogers - Flowers of Bermuda

Stan Rogers - Fogarty's Cove

Stan Rogers - The Bluenose

Stan Rogers - The wreck of the jeanie c

Stan Rogers - White Squall

Stan Rogers -Barrett's Privateers

Stan Rogers -Make and Break Harbor

Stan Rogers -The Mary Ellen Carter

Stan Rogers,- Sailing Down to Ol' Maui

Sting - Valaparaiso

Sting - Why Should I Cry for You?

Sting The Wild Wild Sea

Styx - Come Sail Away

The King Singers - The Skye Boat Song

The Muppets (from Muppet Treasure Island) - Sailing for Adventure

Toni Childs - Where the Ocean

Van Halen - Feels So Good

Van Morrison - Into the Mystic

Wagner -Ride of the Valkyries