Story Behind The Song
I was fooling around on the guitar while watching the Late, Late Show. It was a movie of the same name (Fair Wind To Java) starring Fred MacMurray as an evil, drunken sea Captain of a rundown schooner. The song storyline didn't follow the movie plot but...
Song Description
A reworked recording of Zap's Original with Producer Mark Riddick's Nashville Crew of Wires
| Song Length |
5:02 |
Genre |
Pop - Easy Listening, Pop - Rock |
| Tempo |
Medium Slow (91 - 110) |
Lead Vocal |
Male Vocal |
| Mood |
Composed, Cool |
Subject |
Long, Ocean, Sea |
| Similar Artists |
Jimmy Buffett, The Grateful Dead |
Language |
English |
| Era |
2000 and later |
| |
Lyrics
Fair wind to Java
You better say goodbye for me.
I'm leaving in the morning,
The trade winds will carry me.
Fair wind to Java
I'll see you in the sun.
I'm leaving in the morning,
I guess I'm on the run.
Fair wind to Java
I've got my paints in hand
I'm leaving in the morning,
For that sunny land.
chorus 1
So raise your mizzen mast
And head out to the west.
It's too late for you to follow me.
I'll see you in the sun.
I never should have bought that gun.
But it's too late so say goodbye for me.
verse 2
Fair wind to Java
You better say goodbye for me.
I'm leaving in the morning,
The trade winds will carry me.
Fair wind to Java
I'll see you in the sun.
I'm leaving in the morning,
I guess I'm on the run.
Fair wind to Java
I've got my paints in hand
I'm leaving in the morning,
For that sunny land.
chorus2
There's jasmine in the breeze,
The sun is setting through the trees,
Here I sit on this diamond beach.
Though I'm in paradise,
I paid much too high a price.
How did you slip beyond my reach?