The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald - Gordon Lightfoot
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgI8bta-7aw&feature=related
Ship of Fools - Robert Plant
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uc-eDaEZ4LU
Sloop John B. - The Beach Boys
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdov2UIjUpY
Rock The Boat - The Hues Corporation
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKf_mNpGhl8
Longer Boats - Cat Stevens
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MtsUrsgXnII
Sailing - Christopher Cross
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTQWZfi1_Bw
Shipbuilding - Elvis Costello
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=esjrHxpiet0
Sail On, Sailor - The Beach Boys
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VdrN89Vxu6I&feature=PlayList&p=54CE051FD1AC4A0B&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=14
Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey - Paul McCartney
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_c2b8IcrQu4
He had to have a berth or he couldn't get to sea
Red Sails - David Bowie
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rq0L9aOYI_w&feature=related
Immigrant Song - Led Zeppelin
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svR3iXKTJvc
"On we sweep, with the threshing oar! Our only goal will be the western shore!"
Wow, I took too long - some of these are repeats..
CSN, Wooden Ships
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQAWqT_R5NI
Ian Hunter, Ships
Mountain, Nantucket Sleighride
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Tyw174xSXQ
Beatles, Yellow Submarine
Doors, Crystal Ship
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wf2oHzc_Lfc
Grateful Dead, Ship of Fools
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGRkzPvBCdI
Grateful Dead, Row. Jimmy, Row
Kansas, Point of No Return
Elton John, Madman across the Water
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vvRN09HZ_4
Ian Hunter,
Gordon Lightfoot, Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgI8bta-7aw
George Harrison, Pirate Song
styx, come sail away
"Wooden Ships"- Jefferson Airplane
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIccZsURyLc
"Ship Ahoy"- Frank Zappa
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HtNRS1r4Jfc
As a Liverpool Fan, has to be "Ferry Cross the Mersey"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=loyRYFUYg9g
And lastly, I will bite! Reparata & The Delrons - "Captain of your ship"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZnuIAP0utY
Hello dear
I can think of several in Folk-Rock and Scottish Folk...
'A Sailor's Life' ~ Fairport Convention
'Sir Patrick Spens' ~ Fairport Convention
'The Sea Captain' ~ Sandy Denny
'Sail Away to the Sea' ~ Sandy Denny & The Strawbs
'Lord Franklin' ~ Pentangle
'Fear a Bhàta (My Boatman)' ~ Capercaillie
'Rolling Home' ~ Old Blind Dogs
'Braw Sailin' ' ~ Old Blind Dogs
'A Wife in Every Port' ~ Old Blind Dogs
'River Boat' ~ Robert Palmer
'Loreley' ~ Blackmore's Night
'Single-Handed Sailor' ~ Dire Straits
'So Far from the Clyde' ~ Mark Knopfler
'Flying Dutchman' ~ Jethro Tull
'Seal Driver' ~ Jethro Tull
'The Riverboat Song' ~ Ocean Colour Scene
'Wooden Ships' ~ CSN
'Sailing' ~ Rod Stewart
'The Boat that I Row' ~ Lulu
'Michael, Row the Boat Ashore' ~ The Highwayman
'All Together Now' ~ The Beatles : "...sail the ship..."
Grand Funk Railroad - I'm Your Captain
Iron Maiden - Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Crosby Stills & Nash - Sailing Ships
Ride Captain Ride, as you mentioned.
Styx - Come Sail Away
"Wooden Ships"- Jefferson Airplane
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIccZsURyLc
"Ship Ahoy"- Frank Zappa
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HtNRS1r4Jfc
As a Liverpool Fan, has to be "Ferry Cross the Mersey"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=loyRYFUYg9g
And lastly, I will bite! Reparata & The Delrons - "Captain of your ship"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZnuIAP0utY
Night Boat to Cairo by Madness.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSTHMxBttlU
Boat on the River by Styx.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qm1aoYj8cW8&feature=PlayList&p=528EF1D0F7C9BB6E&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=3
Sailing by Rod Stewart
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zW2-_01i48w
Ship of Fools by Erasure
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NhQrR0F5nnE
I love this one from the 70,s.
Rock the Boat by Hues Corporation.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4u1fmegY1Z4
Pearl Jam - Love Boat Captain
Dropkick Murphys - Captain Kelly's Kitchen
Ocean Colour Scene - The Riverboat Song
Biffy Clyro - The Captain
The Carpenters - Boat To Sail
The Brian Jonestown Massacre - Sailor
Mark Knopfler - Sailing To Philadelphia
The Beach Boys - Sail On Sailor
Creedence Clearwater Revival - Sail Away