Why Are There No Songs About Submarines (Except Yellow Submarine)?

[Bob Gato]

Look up Tommy Cox on You Tube. He was a figure in the events of Blindman's Bluff and was a friend of Bob Harris' here in Swamp Yankee land. Former Sheriff of Aroostook County, ME, too. Sadly, another Brother of the Phin who passed away 19 FEB 23.

- Thumbs up for Tommy Cox...many good songs-BG

[wlambing]

Look up Tommy Cox on You Tube. He was a figure in the events of Blindman's Bluff and was a friend of Bob Harris' here in Swamp Yankee land. Former Sheriff of Aroostook County, ME, too. Sadly, another Brother of the Phin who passed away 19 FEB 23.

[Das Boot]

If Rap is your thing:

https://youtu.be/pnl13Sz9tNc?si=9870iufcYw3Zczrn

[Das Boot]

“Submarines”
The Lumineers:

I believe submarines
Underneath deep blue seas
Saw the flags Japanese
No one will believe me

Ran back to the town bar
And I told the people how
I had seen the submarine
And everyone laughed aloud

I did spy periscopes
Dead of night on the eastern coast
The police made them jokes
Told me I'd seen a ghost

Everyone thinks I'm a liar
No one knows the truth
If it was a bigger fire
I would be on the roof

Ships will rust in Baldwin Bay
(Let me go!)
No one trusts what I say
(I don't know!)
Oh my God, no one paid
(Attention!)
Overnight, my hair turned grey
(Oh oh oh!)

In the end it boils down to credibility
I had none, so I will die with the secrets of the sea
(Submarine can't find me!)
Submarine
(Submarine!)

[Albacore 569]

Kipling wrote 'the trade' ( a poem not a song) in the Great war before we knew batter to give them numbers.


"The Trade"


BY RUDYARD KIPLING


1914-18
(Sea Warfare)



They bear, in place of classic names,

Letters and numbers on their skin.

They play their grisly blindfold games

In little boxes made of tin.

Sometimes they stalk the Zeppelin,

Sometimes they learn where mines are laid,

Or where the Baltic ice is thin.

That is the custom of "The Trade."


Few prize-courts sit upon their claims.

They seldom tow their targets in.

They follow certain secret aims

Down under, far from strife or din.

When they are ready to begin

No flag is flown, no fuss is made

More than the shearing of a pin.

That is the custom of "The Trade."


The Scout's quadruple funnel flames

A mark from Sweden to the Swin,

The Cruiser's thund'rous screw proclaims

Her comings out and goings in:

But only whiffs of paraffin

Or creamy rings that fizz and fade

Show where the one-eyed Death has been.

That is the custom of "The Trade."


Their feats, their fortunes and their fames

Are hidden from their nearest kin;

No eager public backs or blames,

No journal prints the yarn they spin

(The Censor would not let it in! )

When they return from run or raid.

Unheard they work, unseen they win.

That is the custom of "The Trade."

[Fishb0y]

There’s also the official Submariner song, but this is a family site…

[He Who Shall Not Be Named]

Ther's the famous Submariner's Hymn.

Goes like this:

"Hymn, Hymn... **** HIM!"

[redboat219]

Oldies
https://youtu.be/35BSU1Y2dgY?si=pEcRhqRP1JJUTchs

https://youtu.be/TgXWNsDhbVE?si=rRbyyu76O9Yz1Uki

[QuarterMaster]

Uh oh Bob...

Google is your friend!


Thomas Dolby - One Of Our Submarines


You realize I can go to town here.....

[QuarterMaster]

Oooooohhhh wait!!

NO excuse here!

Voyage to Bottom of the Sea sung by Frankie Avalon

(Love you Bob!)

[Bob Gato]

I must be living in a pineapple under the sea-that the first time I ever heard both those songs...well how a bout continuing the momentum and list others of the same
bubbly theme...

[QuarterMaster]

You're punking us, right??

Ballad of Whitey Mack


USS Lapon (SSN-661)

[Bob Gato]

Oh Wait Here's One More From John Mayer: https://youtu.be/SrcMMyNeJJs?si=xnfVzHhm-l63Y9IM

“Walt Grace's Submarine Test, January 1967” is the ninth track on Mayer's 2012 album, Born & Raised. The song tells the story of a man named Walt Grace, who has a dream to build a submarine and travel across the ocean to Japan.