# Songs with "Under the Sea" or "Ocean" theme **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 3, 2006, 5:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-under-the-sea-or-ocean-theme/367152 "2006-08-03T05:14:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Richard\_Pearse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/richard_pearse/32/13144_2.png) [@Richard\_Pearse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Richard_Pearse)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2006, 12:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-under-the-sea-or-ocean-theme/367152/21 "2006-08-03T12:58:36Z")
Echoes by Pink Floyd ---
**Author:** ![yoyodyne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/a9a28c/32.png) [@yoyodyne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yoyodyne)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2006, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-under-the-sea-or-ocean-theme/367152/22 "2006-08-03T13:25:23Z")
Burning Sensations - [Belly of the Whale](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6q8wc6Wk20) ---
**Author:** ![yoyodyne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/a9a28c/32.png) [@yoyodyne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yoyodyne)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2006, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-under-the-sea-or-ocean-theme/367152/23 "2006-08-03T13:33:35Z")
Styx - Come Sail Away Christopher Cross - Sailing ---
**Author:** ![melondeca](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b5a626/32.png) [@melondeca](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/melondeca)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2006, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-under-the-sea-or-ocean-theme/367152/24 "2006-08-03T13:42:01Z")
Sea of Madness by Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young Ocean Size by Jane’s Addiction ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2006, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-under-the-sea-or-ocean-theme/367152/25 "2006-08-03T13:48:50Z")
Ebb Tide Slow Boat to China Little Boat (O Barquinho) Victory at Sea (probably not right for your party) Red Sails in the Sunset I Cover the Waterfront Harbor Lights Shrimp Boats is a-comin’ ---
**Author:** ![minlokwat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/minlokwat/32/2844_2.png) [@minlokwat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/minlokwat)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2006, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-under-the-sea-or-ocean-theme/367152/26 "2006-08-03T13:57:08Z")
You have to include \*Under the Boardwalk \* by the **Drifters**. Also if you can find it, “_Three Little Fishes_” (Fishies?) by ? The one with the “doot, doot, diddum, daddum, waddum, chu” refrain. You know which one I’m talking about. ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2006, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-under-the-sea-or-ocean-theme/367152/27 "2006-08-03T14:03:21Z")
Here’s a great party tune, though it’s an oldie: "Come On Down (To My Boat) by Every Mother’s Son “Dirty Water” by the Standells both will do well in the “makeout room” ---
**Author:** ![Kizarvexius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/da6949/32.png) [@Kizarvexius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kizarvexius)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2006, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-under-the-sea-or-ocean-theme/367152/28 "2006-08-03T14:19:15Z")
_Women and Men_ and _Cow Town_ by They Might Be Giants. The first is essentially a sea shanty, and the second is a hybrid sea shanty/cowboy song. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2006, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-under-the-sea-or-ocean-theme/367152/29 "2006-08-03T14:46:29Z")
And there’s the entire score of “Pirates of Penzance” ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2006, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-under-the-sea-or-ocean-theme/367152/30 "2006-08-03T14:46:42Z")
Anything by **Billy Ocean** , **The Ocean Blue** , **The Waterboys** , **British Sea Power** , or **Great Big Sea** 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Beadalin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3be4f8/32.png) [@Beadalin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beadalin)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2006, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-under-the-sea-or-ocean-theme/367152/31 "2006-08-03T15:36:44Z")
**Underwater Moonlight** , by the Soft Boys **Underwater Love** , by Smoke City **This Is the Sea** , by the Waterboys **Brides of Neptune** , by Cracker ---
**Author:** ![Zahava424](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/76d3ee/32.png) [@Zahava424](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zahava424)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2006, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-under-the-sea-or-ocean-theme/367152/32 "2006-08-03T17:04:38Z")
**Velvet Sea** by Phish **All at Sea** by Jamie Cullum **River, Sea, Ocean** by Badly Drawn Boy ---
**Author:** ![mack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mack)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2006, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-under-the-sea-or-ocean-theme/367152/33 "2006-08-03T17:13:13Z")
Lost Sailor - The Grateful Dead The Wild Wild Sea - Sting ---
**Author:** ![USCDiver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/uscdiver/32/354_2.png) [@USCDiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/USCDiver)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2006, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-under-the-sea-or-ocean-theme/367152/34 "2006-08-03T17:27:07Z")
‘Dock of the Bay’ by Otis Redding Pretty much the whole catalog of The Beach Boys and a ton of stuff by Jimmy Buffett. ---
**Author:** ![Talon\_Karrde](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Talon\_Karrde](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Talon_Karrde)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2006, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-under-the-sea-or-ocean-theme/367152/35 "2006-08-03T17:30:50Z")
I think there are a few Pixies songs that’ll do the trick. **Where Is My Mind?** Mostly for the second verse **Wave of Mutilation** ---
**Author:** ![DocCathode](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doccathode/32/18773_2.png) [@DocCathode](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DocCathode)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2006, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-under-the-sea-or-ocean-theme/367152/36 "2006-08-03T18:01:17Z")
Thing That Should Not Be by Metallica It’s a lovely song about Cthulhu and kindred horrors. ---
**Author:** ![Kizarvexius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/da6949/32.png) [@Kizarvexius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kizarvexius)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2006, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-under-the-sea-or-ocean-theme/367152/37 "2006-08-03T18:04:52Z")
[QUOTE=Annie-Xmas] And there’s the entire score of “Pirates of Penzance” [/QUOTE] Plus _H.M.S. Pinafore_, _Peter Grimes_, _Billy Budd_, _The Flying Dutchman_, _Victory at Sea_, etc. ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2006, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-under-the-sea-or-ocean-theme/367152/38 "2006-08-03T18:19:10Z")
Will there be geeks there? If so, include **NaCl (The Salt Song)** by the McGarrigles, about the irresistable attraction between “just a little atom of chlorine, valence minus one” and “handsome sodium, with enough electrons on his outside shell, plus that extra one”. Somewhere in the deep blue sea there’s a negative For my extra energy, yes, somewhere in this foam my positive will find a home Then unsuspecting chlorine felt a magnetic pull She looked down and her outside shell was full Sodium cried “What a gas, be my bride! And I’ll change your name, chlorine to chloride” ---
**Author:** ![Harmonious\_Discord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/74df32/32.png) [@Harmonious\_Discord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harmonious_Discord)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2006, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-under-the-sea-or-ocean-theme/367152/39 "2006-08-03T19:21:52Z")
The Mermaid Song - Brobdingnagian Bards The Killing of the Whale - Henry and Sid Kipper Albums by Stan Rogers I particularly like: Three Fishers Tiny Fish for Japan Lock Keeper While Cruising Around Yarmouth - A. L. Weber - He sings much about Sea faring. The Down Towner Motel - Lee Murdock And Kevin ODonald Saint Grendins Fair Isle - The Homebug Steamship Co - Debbie McClatchie About the steamships taken to California during the gold rush. Ghosts of Cape Horn - Gordon Lightfoot Christian Island (Georgian Bay) - Gordon Lightfoot Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald - Gordon Lightfoot ---
**Author:** ![NDP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ndp/32/55_2.png) [@NDP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NDP)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2006, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-under-the-sea-or-ocean-theme/367152/40 "2006-08-03T19:22:44Z")
May I suggest: –“A Salty Dog” by Procol Harum –“The Ocean” by either the Velvet Underground (original version) or Lou Reed (revised version) –“Sea Cruise” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-under-the-sea-or-ocean-theme/367152.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-under-the-sea-or-ocean-theme/367152.md?page=3)