I Must Go Down to the Sea Again the Lonely Sea and Sky

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I must get downward to the seas once again, to the...

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I must go down to the seas again, to the lonely ocean and the sky, And all I enquire is a tall ship and a star to steer her past, And the wheel's kick and the current of air'due south song and the white canvass'south shaking, And a gray mist on the sea's face and a grayness dawn breaking.  I must go down to the seas over again, for the phone call of the running tide Is a wild call and a clear call that may non be denied; And all I ask is a windy day with the white clouds flight, 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'southward way and the whale's style where the wind's like a whetted knife; 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: first published in Speaker (Feb. 1902)
¹ Republic of ireland: "tale"

Authorship:

• by John Masefield (1878 - 1967), "Sea-Fever", appears in Salt Water Ballads, outset published 1902[author's text checked 1 time confronting a primary source]

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (non necessarily exhaustive):

• by Mark Andrews (1875 - 1939), "Bounding main-Fever", published <<1940. [ sung text non yet checked against a primary source]
• by Christopher Ball , "Sea fever" [voice and piano], from his oboe concerto [ sung text not withal checked against a primary source]
• past Marshall H. Barnes (b. 1921), "I must get down to the seas again" [satb chorus and orchestra], from Salt Water Ballads [ sung text non yet checked against a primary source]
• by Charles Griffith Bratt (1914 - 1983), "Sea-Fever" [baritone and piano] [ sung text not however checked against a principal source]
• by Flora Bullock , "Sea-Fever", published <<1940. [ sung text not yet checked against a master source]
• past Robert Coningsby Clarke (1879 - 1934), "Bounding main-Fever", published 1919 [vocalisation and piano], from Songs of a Rover [ sung text not even so checked against a primary source]
• by Dawn C. Crawford (b. 1919), "Ocean-Fever", 1942. [baritone and piano] [ sung text non nevertheless checked confronting a primary source]
• by John Hopkins Densmore (1880 - 1943), "I must go downward to the seas once again", published <<1940. [ sung text not yet checked against a primary source]
• by Joseph T. Enos (b. 1911), "Sea-Fever", published <<1957. [tenor and pianoforte] [ sung text not yet checked against a primary source]
• by Richard Bruce Organized religion (b. 1926), "Ocean-Fever" [ sung text not yet checked against a principal source]
• by Elizabeth Gest , "Downwards to the body of water", published 1927. [vocalism and piano] [ sung text not yet checked against a primary source]
• by John (Nicholson) Ireland (1879 - 1962), "Sea-Fever", published 1915. [medium voice or unison chorus and piano] [ sung text checked 1 fourth dimension]
• by John Adams Loud (d. 1935?), "Sea-Fever", published 1924. [voice and piano] [ sung text non however checked against a primary source]
• by Raymond Earle Mitchell (1895 - 1967), "I must become downward to the seas again", published <<1940. [ sung text non even so checked against a chief source]
• by Jason Rico (b. 1978), "Body of water-Fever" [voice and viola] [ sung text non nonetheless checked against a primary source]
• by Tom Vernon Ritchie (b. 1922), "Sea-Fever" [voice and pianoforte] [ sung text not yet checked confronting a chief source]
• by James Hotchkiss Rogers (1857 - 1940), "Ocean-Fever", published <<1940. [ sung text not nonetheless checked confronting a primary source]
• by Wallace Arthur Sabin (1869 - 1937), "Sea-Fever", published <<1929. [medium voice and piano] [ sung text not nonetheless checked against a primary source]
• past Scull , "Sea-Fever" [unison chorus and pianoforte], note: may exist a different text [ sung text not withal checked against a principal source]
• past Bryceson Treharne (1879 - 1948), "Sea-Fever", published <<1940. [ sung text not notwithstanding 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
Word count: 161

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