A Boat Like Gideon Brown Lyrics

Lyric discussion by tonywan 

Cover art for A Boat Like Gideon Brown lyrics by Great Big Sea

Every time I hear this song, I get so sad for the singer's dad. Why doesn't somebody just buy the poor guy a boat?!

@tonywan ya got any idea what a boat Gideon Brown\'s would cost? The trouble is that dad\'s own boat is not strong enough to be successful enough at fishing to afford the bigger stronger boat. I don\'t know if he could have gotten a loan, would he have made enough to make the payments on the new boat. But it is a song about how dreams can slowly die and how as one person here pointed out, reality can be hard to deal with. Nope, Santa is not going to just appear, and buy him a boat. And if you...