Bob Seger

Songwriter: Bob Seger

Producer: Bob Seger Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section

[Vese 1]
"Tell me quick" said Old McFee
"What's this all have to do with me?
I've spent all my time at sea a loner
Is there something else I should know?
Something hidden down below
The level of your conversation?"
Well he turned away before the answer
Though I yelled aloud he refused to hear
It became too clear

[Verse 2]
So it went as we put out
I was left in constant doubt
Everything I asked about seemed private
The captain strolled the bridge one night
I stopped him in the evening light
To ask him would it be all right to join him
But he stood there like some idol
And he listened like some temple
And then he turned away

[Verse 3]
All along the fateful coast
We moved silent like a ghost
The timeless sea of tireless host possessed us
The wind came building from the cold northwest
And soon the waves began to crest
Crashing cross the forward deck, all hands lost
I alone survived the sinking
I alone possess the tools
On that ship of fools

[Outro]
Ship of fools
On that ship of fools
That ship of fools

Robert Clark “Bob” Seger (born May 6, 1945) is an American singer-songwriter, guitarist and pianist. As a locally successful Detroit-area artist, he performed and recorded as Bob Seger and the Last Heard and Bob Seger System throughout the 1960s. By the early 1970s, he had dropped the “System” from his recordings and continued to strive for broader success with various other bands. In 1973, he put together the Silver Bullet Band, with a group of Detroit-area musicians, with whom he became most successful on the national level with the album Live Bullet, recorded live with the Silver Bullet Band in 1975 at Cobo Hall in Detroit, Michigan. On his studio albums, he also worked extensively with the Alabama-based Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section, which appeared on several of Seger’s best-selling singles and albums.

In 1976, he achieved a national breakout with the studio album Night Moves. The Night Moves title track became his first Billboard Top 5 single and the album started a string six consecutive albums landing in the Billbaord Top 10. The 1980 album, Against the Wind, topped the charts.

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Night Moves (1976)
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