ROD STEWART - SAILLING

SAILLING

ROD STEWART

SONGWRITER: GAVIN SUTHERLAND

COUNTRY: U. K.

ALBUM: ATLANTIC CROSS

LABEL: WARNER BROS.

GENRE: SOFT ROCK

YEAR: 1975

 

           Sir Roderick David Stewart CBE (born 10 January 1945) is a British rock and pop singer, songwriter and record producer. With his distinctive raspy singing voice, Stewart is one of the best-selling music artists of all time, having sold over 250 million records worldwide. He has had ten number-one albums and 31 top ten singles in the UK, six of which reached number one. Stewart has had 16 top ten singles in the US, with four reaching number one on the Billboard Hot 100. He was knighted in the 2016 Birthday Honours for services to music and charity.

"Sailing" is a song composed by Gavin Sutherland of the Sutherland Brothers in 1972, best known as a 1975 international hit for Rod Stewart.

           "Sailing" was recorded by Rod Stewart for his first album recorded in North America rather than Great Britain: Atlantic Crossing, which album was recorded April – June 1975 at Muscle Shoals Sound Studio with Tom Dowd producing. The first single from the album, "Sailing" afforded Stewart an international hit notably in the UK where "Sailing" was No. 1 for four weeks in September 1975: augmented by a return to the UK chart in 1976 and – to a lesser extent – 1987, "Sailing" remains the Rod Stewart single to have the greatest success in its UK release. However, "Sailing" failed to afford Stewart a major hit in his newly adopted US homeland.

I am sailing, I am sailing

Home again across the sea

I am sailing, stormy waters

To be near you, to be free

 

I am flying, I am flying

Like a bird across the sky

I am flying, passing high clouds

To be near you, to be free

 

Can you hear me? Can you hear me?

Through the dark night, far away

I am dying, forever crying

To be with you, who can say?

 

Can you hear me? Can you hear me?

Through the dark night, far away

I am dying, forever crying

To be near you, who can say?

 

We are sailing, we are sailing

Home again across the sea

We 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

Oh Lord!