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animate_mush

Call the Navigator

Apr 14, 2012 23:20

Call the Navigator (from "Where No Man...")
by Heather Sanders, Cynthia McQuillin, and Kristoph Klover

O I've sailed the midnight sea from Earth to Alpha-5 ( Read more... )

astronomy, lyrics, music, star trek

Comments 6

mayamaia April 15 2012, 16:33:08 UTC

For some reason, reading that just now, I heard it to the tune of a different sailing song.

animate_mush April 16 2012, 03:17:05 UTC

Oh? What song?

mayamaia April 16 2012, 03:50:34 UTC

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAe9RLqizHA

animate_mush April 16 2012, 13:30:54 UTC

Yep, it works! Gives it a _very_ different tone though...

Lyric discrepancies anonymous June 20 2019, 14:37:29 UTC

All the other lyrics I found for this song had "Aldemmeron", "wild life", and "mining ship". "Aldebaran" as you've written it seems to be the correct spelling, and closer to what I'm hearing (mentally, I spell it as "Aldeveron" because that's what I keep hearing) so I think the others all started as a single wrong set of lyrics that the other sites copied. However, while "wild heart" and "mighty ship" scan better and make more sense to me, it does sound more like "life" and the people in the recording I'm listening to, frustratingly, seem to be split between "mighty" and "mining"-- I hear both the n and g of mining softly over the smoother syllables of mighty. So I'm curious-- how did you get these words? Do you have some official lyric sheet, like from a songbook or something, or did you listen and transcribe? (And if it was listening, are you going from the Where No Man album recording or some other that I haven't yet come across ( ... )

Re: Lyric discrepancies animate_mush June 25 2019, 12:45:45 UTC

So I transcribed this myself from the rip of the "Where No Man..." album on weyrdmusician's Youtube channel, but I am pretty confident in it.

In particular, "Aldebaran" is the name of a Real Life star, so I am entirely sure that that's what they are saying, because I have an actual word to map it to. As for the others, I never considered alternative interpretations, and as you say, the words I heard make sense in context, but that's not always a sure thing. There's a song a like that goes:

"She likes my dad, ain't it corny how

He had such a temper - guess who's got it now"

...except that the actual lyric for the bolded part is "he knew Gordy Howe" which is...way worse. So *shrug*

And good luck to you!