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This song was inspired by my daughter. But a few years later I realised it was really for any migrant workers who have had to leave their family in order to make a living.

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There’s a ship
Sailing on the sea
It’s bringing my baby
Back home to me

Sail on sailing ship back home to me

It’s got rigging
and big white sails
It’s got a crow’s nest
to spy the whales

Mind those whales so you come home safe to me

The ocean waves
are big and rough
To get across
I hope you’re strong enough

To come sailing on your ___ boat back to me

The ocean’s big
and wide and dark and deep
But that boat of yours
is built to keep

Sail on, sailing sailing ship back to me

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from Harry Smith was my father, released January 23, 2009

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Hiawatha Telephone Company Brighton, UK

A singer-songwriter sort-of-thing, named after a t-shirt and never intended as a viable commercial proposition HTC was a vehicle for some excellent songs.

2009 album 'Harry Smith was my Father' is described as "immaculate, the acme of intimacy in music" (Common Folk Meadow). A second album 'Passengers Greatest Hits' followed in 2014.

HTC now records and releases music as 'The Family Grave'.
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