I was sixteen now and full of life, life was full of things to see
Grown up in my little town and only seen Torquay
So it's off I went to Newton Abbot to get myself the deeds to sign
My father took them and tore them up, saying "That's no life for a boy of mine"
"John, my son, don't join the Navy, there's no good in it, I know
Plant your seeds on solid ground and watch your harvest grow
John, my son, don't join the Navy, that's clay that's underneath your skin
John, my son, don't join the Navy, don't go leaving your kith and kin"
A boy must breathe and . . . or call himself a failure
So I would see some foreign shores and I would be a sailor
So I went off to my mother for a week or more and wiled and wheeled and won my way
Father put the pen to paper in the fields at lunch the very next day

1. Fairport Convention - A Sailor's Life
2. Fairport Convention - After Halloween
3. Fairport Convention - Angel Delight
4. Fairport Convention - Autopsy
5. Fairport Convention - Banks Of The Sweet Primroses
6. Fairport Convention - Big William
7. Fairport Convention - Book Song
8. Fairport Convention - Bring 'em Down
9. Fairport Convention - Cajun Woman
10. Fairport Convention - Chelsea Morning
11. Fairport Convention - Close The Door Lightly When You Go
12. Fairport Convention - Come All Ye Rolling Minstrels
13. Fairport Convention - Crazy Man
14. Fairport Convention - Crazy Man Michael
15. Fairport Convention - Dawn
16. Fairport Convention - Decameron
17. Fairport Convention - Doctor of Physick
18. Fairport Convention - Eastern Rain
19. Fairport Convention - Farewell, Farewell
20. Fairport Convention - Flowers of the Forest
21. Fairport Convention - Fotheringay
22. Fairport Convention - Genesis Hall
23. Fairport Convention - Gone, Gone, Gone
24. Fairport Convention - I Don't Know Where I Stand
25. Fairport Convention - I'll Keep It With Mine
26. Fairport Convention - If It Feels Good, You Know It Can't Be Wrong
27. Fairport Convention - If Stomp
28. Fairport Convention - Iron Lion
29. Fairport Convention - It's Alright Ma It's Only Witchcraft
30. Fairport Convention - It's Alright Ma, It's Only Witchcraft
31. Fairport Convention - Jack O'diamonds
32. Fairport Convention - Jack O'rion
33. Fairport Convention - John Barleycorn
34. Fairport Convention - Lady of Pleasure
35. Fairport Convention - Let It Go
36. Fairport Convention - Lord Marlborough
37. Fairport Convention - Matty Groves
38. Fairport Convention - Meet On The Ledge
39. Fairport Convention - Million Dollar Bash
40. Fairport Convention - Mr Lacey
41. Fairport Convention - Night Time Girl
42. Fairport Convention - No Man's Land
43. Fairport Convention - Nottamun Town
44. Fairport Convention - One More Chance
45. Fairport Convention - One Sure Thing
46. Fairport Convention - Part I
47. Fairport Convention - Part Ii
48. Fairport Convention - Part Iv
49. Fairport Convention - Part Ix
50. Fairport Convention - Part V
51. Fairport Convention - Part Vi
52. Fairport Convention - Part Vii
53. Fairport Convention - Part Viii
54. Fairport Convention - Part X
55. Fairport Convention - Part Xi
56. Fairport Convention - Percy's Song
57. Fairport Convention - Pleasure and Pain
58. Fairport Convention - Polly on the Shore
59. Fairport Convention - Possibly Parsons Green
60. Fairport Convention - Reno, Nevada
61. Fairport Convention - Restless
62. Fairport Convention - Reynard the Fox
63. Fairport Convention - Reynardine
64. Fairport Convention - Rising for the Moon
65. Fairport Convention - Rolling Minstrels
66. Fairport Convention - She Moves Through the Fair
67. Fairport Convention - Sickness and Diseases
68. Fairport Convention - Sir Patrick Spens
69. Fairport Convention - Sir William Gower
70. Fairport Convention - Sloth
71. Fairport Convention - Some Sweet Day
72. Fairport Convention - Stranger to Himself
73. Fairport Convention - Sun Shade
74. Fairport Convention - Suzanne
75. Fairport Convention - Tale In Hard Time
76. Fairport Convention - Tam Lin
77. Fairport Convention - The Bonny Black Hare
78. Fairport Convention - The Deserter
79. Fairport Convention - The Hexhamshire Lass
80. Fairport Convention - The Journeyman's Grace
81. Fairport Convention - The Lobster
82. Fairport Convention - The Widow Of Westmorland's Daughter
83. Fairport Convention - Three Drunken Maidens
84. Fairport Convention - Time Will Show the Wiser
85. Fairport Convention - To Althea From Prison
86. Fairport Convention - Tried So Hard
87. Fairport Convention - Walk Awhile
88. Fairport Convention - What is True
89. Fairport Convention - White Dress
90. Fairport Convention - Who Knows Where The Time Goes
91. Fairport Convention - Wizard of the Worldly Game
92. Fairport Convention - Ye Mariners All