Songs to bring memories back

[Mo Docherty]

Just listening to mother and child reunion by paul simon and it brought great memories of kingston jamacia when we were docked there,song was written in kingston,appletons rum was loony stuff fellas

[j.sabourn]

Trinidad rum Old Oak was ok .JS

[Robbie MacLean]

Chagaramus Trinidad, Bob Marley - No Woman No Cry and Vat 19 rum. 1976

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[Richard Wilmot]

Lonnie Donegan 'I Wanna Go Home'. Certainly reminds me of my seafaring days...

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[j.sabourn]

#3. spent 11 months on that run Robbie East coast of Canada to Bermuda , the Virgin Islands, Trinidad Port of Spain , with general cargo and a bakers dozen of passengers, then Chagarumus to load bauxite on a 3 decked vessel back for Canada in 67/68 . What a way to go to sea . Times never to be forgotten. Cheers JS

[Doc Vernon]

Lonnie Donegan 'I Wanna Go Home'. Certainly reminds me of my seafaring days...

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Similar to Bobby Bare Singing "". Starts ! Last Night i went to sleep in Detroit City etc.

Last night I went to sleep in Detroit CityAnd I dreamed about those cottonfields and home
I dreamed about my mother, dear old papa, sister and brother
I dreamed about that girl, who's been waiting for so long
I wanna go home, I wanna go home, oh how I wanna go home

Homefolks think I'm big in Detroit City
From the letters that I write they think I'm fine
By day I make the cars, by night I make the bars
If only they could read between the lines

'Cause you know I rode the freight train north to Detroit City
And after all these years I find, I've just been wastin' my time
So I just think I'll take my foolish pride
Put it on a Southbound freight and ride
And go on back to the loved ones, the ones that I left waitin' so far behind

I wanna go home, I wanna go home, oh how I wanna go home

[happy daze john in oz]

'Cindy oh Cindy please wait for me,
I know my Cindy is waiting as I walk the deck alone, her loving arms reach pout to me soon I be going home.

Pet Clarke, 'Sailor oh sailor oh, sailor just leave the sea.........................

[Noel Kelly]

Sometime in 1954 we were at anchor loading sugar at a place called Caibarién in Cuba. I was sent ashore to see a doctor because of an ear infection picked up when sea swimming at Curacao. I was put in a hotel and kept ashore for 3 days(Doctor's orders). First night I found my way into a small cafe that had a Jukebox. Browsing the music available I found it was all Cuban stuff except one, "Earth Angel" by the Penguins. I had never heard it before but I played it more than once and got the attention of the cafe's clientele. I liked it, still do, never forgot it or my 3 day stay in before Castro Cuba.

[j.sabourn]

Probably been to caibarien but do not remember if did not get ashore. My memories of the surf ports in Cuba the hard work it entailed getting the Insurance wire out of the focsle head dragging the end down aft passing it out of the quarter and man handling back up forward and shackling It on to the anchor chain outside the hawspipe .Turning up the inboard end of the wire on the bitts aft .Then paying out the anchor ,to make a lee for the lighters .
The wire of course when taking the weight and pulling the ships stern into the wind as required . I was lucky as my first trip going to Cuba we went to Cienfuegos on the south coast where the wine women and song hung out.But like you also the surf ports also in 1954. JS

PS Noel see you were originally from Gateshead where my wife hails from , she lived in Rawlings Road and went to Kelvin Road School. She is however half a dozen years younger than you , But might bring back memories of
the area . If by chance you served your time in Parsons of Wallsend or know of it , her father was Leslie Dunn the foreman in the turbine gear cutting shop. Cheers JS

[Noel Kelly]

Certainly brings back memories, for 26 years Gateshead was my home before leaving for California. Well aware of Kelvin Grove school, had friends who went there. Also had friends who lived on Rawling Road. I knew a lad called Newton Dunn but don't know if he's related to your wife. I went to Brighton Road school and the Central Technical Secondary school on Whitehall Road. Was an active member of the Gateshead Amateur Swimming Club at the Shipcote Baths. Still have a very good friend in Gateshead who went to Kelvin Grove, her name is Doreen Batey.
If your missus wants to reminisce with me about Gateshead my email address is noelmavisk@sbcglobal.net