Shiver Me Timbers, The Heart of Saturday Night, Tom Waits [016]

Martin waxes lyrical about a life on the open waves, and Sam and Anna view the whole endeavour a little more fatalistically. Perhaps that had an unpleasant experience on a ferry as small children? Song by Song is Martin Zaltz Austwick and Sam Pay; two musicians listening to and discussing every single Tom Waits track in chronological order. website: www.songbysongpodcast.com twitter: @songbysongpod e-mail: [email protected] Music extracts used for illustrative/review purposes include: Shiver Me Timbers, The Heart of Saturday Night, Tom Waits (1974) Under Milk Wood by Dylan Thomas, Read by Richard Burton (1954) We think your Song by Song experience will be enhanced by hearing, in full, the songs featured in the show, which you can get hold of from your favourite record shop or online platform. Please support artists by buying their music, or using services which guarantee artists a revenue - listen responsibly. Lyrics - Shiver Me Timbers I'm leaving my family, I'm leaving all my friends My body's at home, but my heart's in the wind Where the clouds are like headlines on a new front-page sky My tears are salt water, and the moon's full and high And I know Martin Eden's gonna be proud of me now And many before me, who've been called by the sea To be up in the crow's nest, and singing my say Shiver me timbers, cause I'm a-sailing away And the fog's lifting, and the sand's shifting, and I'm drifting on out Old Captain Ahab, he ain't got nothing on me now So swallow me, don't follow me, I'm traveling alone Blue water's my daughter, and I'm gonna skip like a stone So please call my missus, gotta tell her not to cry now 'Cause my goodbye is written by the moon in the sky Hey, and nobody knows me, I can't fathom my staying And shiver me timbers, cause I'm a-sailing away And the fog's lifting, and the sand's shifting, and I'm drifting on out And old Captain Ahab, he ain't got nothing on me So come and swallow me, follow me, I'm traveling alone Blue water's my daughter, I'm gonna skip like a stone And I'm leaving my family, I'm leaving all my friends My body's at home, but my heart's in the wind Where the clouds are like headlines upon a new front-page sky And shiver me timbers, 'cause I'm a-sailing away