| Procol Harum – A Salty Dog Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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Hi there, I just signed in on the purpose of exploring this beatiful song's lyrics. I'm more with the thing of "travel through life and death", at least a more poetical option. I would hate to think of it as a wanker's testament! :-) I have loved this song since my early boyhood, it used to be the opening of one of the very first tv programs I can recall - it was called "adventures" or something - and kept listening to it like a mantra forever. Then I grew up and sailed around the world for many years, yes I passed the Horn quite a few times, too, and never really felt like having to dig into meanings - weird as it may be. The song was some sort of a "call" to me, if you like, as I was born far from the sea. Now I'm over fifty and bolted to the mainland, but the song certainly still evokes the freedom and fear of sailing into the blue, totally unaware of whatever comes next, wind in your hair and eyes pointed into the infinite. And all the confused mixed feelings and unanswerable questions that go with it. Just like life when you face it day-to-day, and death. "we run afloat", though, means "we have a big hole in the hull" and is perfectly consequent to "all hands on deck" as a serious alert. What I don't understand is: Why "A Salty Dog" ? What has a dog to do with it all ? I am not mothertongue, so possibly a hidden meaning of this expression eludes me ? A dog (maybe a humble person) that has spent too much time at sea ? Thanks buddies, catch you soon. |
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