Silver Ship (Dedicated to Those Services Active in Vietnam)
1968 · Ode Ode 1 · Auckland, New Zealand
- Artist
- Abdullahs' Regime
- Title
- Silver Ship (Dedicated to Those Services Active in Vietnam)
- Release
- Sally, I Do / Silver Ship
- Year
- 1968
- Label
- Ode Ode # 1
- Format
- 7" · Single
- Language
- English
- Country
- Auckland, New Zealand
- Genre
- Rock · Freakbeat · Psychedelic Rock
- Primary theme
- Home Front Perspective / Soldier's Perspective
Annotation
Garage rock group formed in Wellington, New Zealand. Members featured: Mark Dalley (vocals, guitar, keyboards), Robert Coulter (rhythm guitar), Greg Cobb (bass), and Mark Hansen (drums). The song "Silver Ship (Dedicated to Those Services Active in Vietnam)" (Ode Records # Ode 1) was narrated from a soldier's perspective, "far away from my home...across the sea", missing home: "I still sit and cry".
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
Lyrics
English: Silver ship on the sea, won't me carry me please, carry me home / Two years, maybe three, foreign country, a soldier I am / A soldier ?...far away from my home and my love / Silver ship won't you carry me home / Time is passed in this land, broken down here by man... / I remember my home, little doggy has gone, and I still sit and cry / Far across the sea is the home I love / But I'll probably, will it be, will it be / Oh no no, how much can I take / Oh no no, I must not break / 'Til next I see you, 'til next I see you, my love
About the artist
Formed Wellington, New Zealand