Rod Stewart – Sailing

Song categories: Ballads, Male Singers. Artist: Rod Stewart.

Rod Stewart recorded the song at Muscle Shoals Sound Studio in Muscle Shoals, Alabama for his 1975 album Atlantic Crossing, and it was subsequently a number one hit in the UK in September 1975 for four weeks. The single returned to the UK top ten a year later when used as the theme music for the BBC documentary series Sailor, about HMS Ark Royal, and made a minor chart appearance when re-released as a charity single after the Zeebrugge ferry disaster in 1987. Having been a hit twice, it remains Stewart’s biggest-selling single in the UK.

Lyrics

I am sailing
I am sailing
home again ‘cross the sea.
I am sailing stormy waters
to be near you to be free.
I am flying
I am flying like a bird ‘cross the sky
I am flying passing high clouds to be with you to be free.

Can you hear me
can you hear me thro’ the dark night far away.
I am dying forever trying to be with you who can say.
Can you hear me
can you hear me thro’ the dark night far away.
I am dying forever trying to be with you who can say.

We are sailing
we are sailing home again ‘cross the sea.
VVe are sailing stormy waters to be near you to be free.

Oh Lord to be near you to be free
Oh Lord to be near you to be free…

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