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Jimmy Buffett’s “A Pirate Looks at 40″ tops the list of the Top Boat Songs. The top ten list also includes ”It’s Five O’clock Somewhere” and “Knee Deep”.
From the Palm Beach Post blog: “Discover Boating lists top 10 boating songs”
The boating-promotion organization Discover Boating recently released its top-10 list of boating songs, a group of boating tunes chosen by a vote of Discover Boating’s Facebook fans.
1. “A Pirate Looks at 40″ by Jimmy Buffett
2. ”Come Sail Away” by Styx.
3. ”Redneck Yacht Club” by Craig Morgan.
4 ”Southern Cross” by Crosby, Stills and Nash.
5. ”It’s Five O’clock Somewhere” by Jimmy Buffett and Alan Jackson
6. ”Knee Deep” by the Zac Brown Band (with Jimmy Buffett)
7. ”Boats” by Kenny Chesney
8. ”Sloop John B” by The Beach Boys
9. ”If I Had a Boat” by Lyle Lovett
10. ”Rock the Boat” by Hues Corporation
August 12th, 2011 at 8:28 am
What! No “Sail On Sailor” by the Beach Boys/and orJimmy Buffett! Rock The Boat by the Hues Corp! Puh-Lease!
August 12th, 2011 at 8:41 am
Guy Clark’s “Boats to Build” is missing too!
August 12th, 2011 at 1:19 pm
I second that thought – “Rock the boat”??? To qualify as a top boat song, the song has to convey the feeling of being out on the water. I agree that Sail on Sailor belongs here.
Also missing from the list is Loggins and Messina’s “Vahevala” (with their “Sailing the Wind” as a great backup) and Mark Knopfler’s “Sailing to Philadelphia”.
I love “5 O’Clock Somewhere” but that has one slight mention of sailing away compared to “Son of a Son of a Sailor.”
Well it’s Friday approaching 5 O’Clock so I’ll be slipping on my Sailin’ Shoes (Robert Palmer or Little Feat) and Sailin’ On (Toots & the Maytals). Cheers.
August 12th, 2011 at 1:25 pm
This is better than Smoke on the Water that won for Boating Magazine a few years back…not a Buffett song on that list! Many of these are songs JB has covered…he knows a good boating song when he hears one!
August 12th, 2011 at 7:09 pm
Come on guys you forgot two of the best.”Sailing” by Christopher Cross and “Cool Change” by Little River Band.
August 13th, 2011 at 9:57 am
Isn’t Come Sail Away actually about a space ship? Just askin ;^)
August 13th, 2011 at 11:06 pm
Damn they missed Boat Drinks, The Hockey Song, The Best Boat Song Ever
August 14th, 2011 at 2:48 pm
Great list! I have a boat playlist that we listen to on the boat and every one of these songs is one it multiple times- original, live, encores….you name it.
Fins Up!
August 14th, 2011 at 4:47 pm
How about “Sea Cruise” by Frankie Ford. Jimmy does an excellent cover of it also!
March 22nd, 2012 at 10:34 pm
Billy Joel “Downeaster Alexa” duhhhh