I'll Sail My Ship Alone

DESCRIPTION: "We've been sweethearts for so long but now you say, 'We're through!'" "I'll sail my ship alone with all the dreams I own Drifting out across the ocean blue.... And when it starts to sink, then I'll blame you." He wishes she would hear his message
AUTHOR: Henry Bernard, Henry Thurston, Morrey Burns, Mann Lois (sources: musixmatch, Wikipedia)
EARLIEST DATE: 1950 (recording, Moon Mullican)
KEYWORDS: love betrayal ship
FOUND IN: US
RECORDINGS:
Dale Borusky, "I'll Sail My Ship Alone" (Piotr-Archive #562, recorded 04/18/2023)
NOTES [93 words]: Dale Borusky had this from his grandmother, Pearl Jacobs Borusky. I find this interesting -- Borusky was of course alive in 1950 when this song was popular, but not particularly young; it wouldn't have been a "legacy" song for her. Just a little comment on the nature of tradition.
This was reportedly Moon Mullican's biggest hit (he was one of the four authors, under the name Morr(e)y Burns), and was widely recorded by country and pop artists -- Wikipedia lists recordings by Patsy Cline, Jerry Lee Lewis, Hank Williams, George Jones, and many others. - RBW
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