I m Going Down to the Sea Again

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I must go down to the seas over again, to the...

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I must get down to the seas again, to the lonely sea and the sky, And all I enquire is a tall ship and a star to steer her past, And the wheel'south kicking and the wind's song and the white sail's shaking, And a grey mist on the bounding main'southward face and a greyness dawn breaking.  I must go down to the seas again, for the call of the running tide Is a wild call and a articulate call that may not be denied; And all I ask is a windy day with the white clouds flying, And the flung spray and the blown spume and the seagulls crying.  I must go down to the seas again, to the vagrant gypsy life, To the gull's way and the whale's way where the wind's like a whetted pocketknife; And all I ask is a merry [yarn]1              from a laughing fellow-rover, And quiet sleep and a sweet dream when the long trick's over.

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Note: commencement published in Speaker (Feb. 1902)
¹ Ireland: "tale"

Authorship:

• by John Masefield (1878 - 1967), "Sea-Fever", appears in Table salt Water Ballads, beginning published 1902[author's text checked one time confronting a primary source]

Musical settings (fine art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):

• by Mark Andrews (1875 - 1939), "Sea-Fever", published <<1940. [ sung text not yet checked confronting a primary source]
• by Christopher Ball , "Ocean fever" [voice and piano], from his oboe concerto [ sung text non all the same checked against a main source]
• by Marshall H. Barnes (b. 1921), "I must go down to the seas again" [satb chorus and orchestra], from Salt H2o Ballads [ sung text non still checked confronting a chief source]
• by Charles Griffith Bratt (1914 - 1983), "Ocean-Fever" [baritone and piano] [ sung text not however checked against a master source]
• by Flora Bullock , "Ocean-Fever", published <<1940. [ sung text not yet checked against a primary source]
• by Robert Coningsby Clarke (1879 - 1934), "Sea-Fever", published 1919 [voice and piano], from Songs of a Rover [ sung text non withal checked confronting a chief source]
• by Dawn C. Crawford (b. 1919), "Sea-Fever", 1942. [baritone and piano] [ sung text not yet checked against a primary source]
• by John Hopkins Densmore (1880 - 1943), "I must get down to the seas again", published <<1940. [ sung text not yet checked against a primary source]
• by Joseph T. Enos (b. 1911), "Sea-Fever", published <<1957. [tenor and piano] [ sung text not notwithstanding checked against a primary source]
• by Richard Bruce Organized religion (b. 1926), "Body of water-Fever" [ sung text not yet checked against a chief source]
• by Elizabeth Gest , "Down to the body of water", published 1927. [vocalisation and piano] [ sung text not yet checked against a chief source]
• by John (Nicholson) Republic of ireland (1879 - 1962), "Bounding main-Fever", published 1915. [medium voice or unison chorus and piano] [ sung text checked i time]
• by John Adams Loud (d. 1935?), "Body of water-Fever", published 1924. [voice and piano] [ sung text non yet checked against a primary source]
• by Raymond Earle Mitchell (1895 - 1967), "I must go down to the seas again", published <<1940. [ sung text not yet checked against a principal source]
• by Jason Rico (b. 1978), "Sea-Fever" [vocalization and viola] [ sung text not yet checked against a principal source]
• by Tom Vernon Ritchie (b. 1922), "Sea-Fever" [vocalism and piano] [ sung text not however checked confronting a primary source]
• by James Hotchkiss Rogers (1857 - 1940), "Ocean-Fever", published <<1940. [ sung text not yet checked against a primary source]
• by Wallace Arthur Sabin (1869 - 1937), "Body of water-Fever", published <<1929. [medium vox and piano] [ sung text not yet checked against a master source]
• by Scull , "Bounding main-Fever" [unison chorus and piano], note: may be a different text [ sung text non yet checked against a principal source]
• by Bryceson Treharne (1879 - 1948), "Sea-Fever", published <<1940. [ sung text not however checked against a primary source]

Researcher for this text: Ted Perry

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 12
Give-and-take count: 161

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