Operation 365 - Jefferson Jay - Originals - 54 "Wooden Boats"

Operation 365 - Jefferson Jay - Originals - 54 "Wooden Boats" Been on a bit of a playing-tunes-off-my-old-albums kick these last few days. Guess I’m gonna have to get to (more or less) all of these tunes some day. Here s an interesting one. The back story to this jam is... Years ago, I was sitting at a bar in Point Loma. Next to me was this older gentleman. His name was Bert Ohlander. I remember. He told me he was an Olympian in Rome for the Finns in 1960 and later wne ton to race Porsches in the late 1960s. He told me he'd sold like 15 to Jerry Seinfeld. He was waxing poetic about the majesty of wooden boats, about how the way they floated on the water was different and how they don't make things like they used to anymore. I told him what I did and he invited me to his boat the next day to check it out. If I wrote a song about wooden boats he said, he couldn't bring it to Jerry, but Jerry's manager owed him a favor... So we went the next day. We were a little late so we didn't go out on the water. This was fine with me cause Bert said he had vertigo and got dizzy sometimes at sea. Scary. Anyway, we had a lovely time and I wrote "Wooden Boats." "Wooden Ships" was taken. "Wooden Boats" appears on my 1st CD "Great Story" which can be had for a donation at wwww.jeffersonjay.com This version is a bit different than the one on the CD. I disco'd it up some for fun and think I may have mildly altered a lyric or two. I hadn't played the tune in quite awhile. Peace and love.

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