The Magic Of Sailing

[USCGRET1990]

Youre sailing softly through the sun
In a broken stone age dawn.
You fly so high.

I get a strange magic,
Oh, what a strange magic,
Oh, its a strange magic.
Got a strange magic,

Youre walking meadows in my mind,
Making waves across my time,
Oh no, oh no.

Oh, Im never gonna be the same again,
Now Ive seen the way its got to end,
Sweet dream, sweet dream.
Strange magic,
Oh, what a strange magic,
Oh, its a strange magic.
Got a strange magic,

ELO

[teshannon]

I didn't know you were a poet also. Very nice!

[USCGRET1990]

That's an old song by Electric Light Orchestra...

[TrueBlue]

I've got the originally issued vinyl somewhere . . . probably collecting dust with the 1975 volumes of Time Life Library of Boating.

[USCGRET1990]

I think I have the Time Life "Pirates" collection...

[sanctuarysam]

Originally Posted by USCGRET1990

That's an old song by Electric Light Orchestra...

ok..now i want to see the lyrics for "Fire on High" (including all the backward words..)
i miss music like this..ELO, EL&P,Yes, Procol Harem to name a few....

[USCGRET1990]

We skipped the light fandango
Turned cartwheels cross the floor
I was feeling kinda seasick
But the crowd called out for more
The room was humming harder
As the ceiling flew away
When we called out for another drink
The waiter brought a tray

And so it was that later
As the miller told his tale
That her face, at first just ghostly,
Turned a whiter shade of pale
She said, there is no reason
And the truth is plain to see.
But I wandered through my playing cards
And would not let her be
One of sixteen vestal virgins
Who were leaving for the coast
And although my eyes were open
They might have just as wellve been closed
She said, Im home on shore leave,
Though in truth we were at sea
So I took her by the looking glass
And forced her to agree
Saying, you must be the mermaid
Who took neptune for a ride.
But she smiled at me so sadly
That my anger straightway died

If music be the food of love
Then laughter is its queen
And likewise if behind is in front
Then dirt in truth is clean
My mouth by then like cardboard
Seemed to slip straight through my head
So we crash-dived straightway quickly
And attacked the ocean bed


Procol Harum lyrics to..?????

[USCGRET1990]

Fire on High
Electric Light Orchestra
Back turn,back turn,back turn,back turn
But times is not
The song is reversible

[camaraderie]

A whiter shade of pale ....
Some people call me Maurice, / Cause I speak of the Pompitous of love.

[TrueBlue]

Loved Procal Harem and their Leslie and Hammon organ.

Speaking of ELO, remember the melatron? I was a fan of groups with that sound . . . seemed to be huge with many late 60s, early 70s musicians.

Knights in White Satin (Moody Blues)
I Talk to the Wind (King Crimson)
Take a Pebble (Emerson Lake & Palmer)

To name a few.