"Woodcarvings and drawings by Gordon Bok."--Verso of title page.

Primarily melodies with chord symbols; includes poems and guitar music in staff notation and tablature.

Includes index.

All my sailors -- The bird rock -- Matinicus -- Shipyard boat -- The gift -- Dark old waters -- Captain Dave's delight -- Boat of silver -- Culebra -- Dear old vessels (one for the Taber) -- Bay Saint Mary -- Against the moon -- Archie take your boots off / Namagati (Northwest airt) -- Another bay -- Chall eilibh -- Good wish -- Janko (Yanka) -- Gordon's farewell -- Harbors of home -- Gordon's fancy -- The wreck of the schooner Ellen Munn -- The ledge-end of the fiddler -- Long life to the moon -- Rory Dall -- The sea wife -- Boats of Peter's river -- Fiddler of Dooney -- Harp song of the Dane women -- The shepherd's call -- Loni -- Morag -- Carmina gadelica -- Mussels in the corner -- Wild birds -- Wiscasset schooners -- Karl Edstrom and the Hesper -- Woodworker's litany (season to season) -- Jericho (Ho-ro, the wind and snow) -- Beaches of Lucannon -- Blackbird -- The ways of man -- The schooner Ellenmore -- Liza Jane -- Old fat boat (Mattapoisett Harbor inventory) -- Sally -- Safe -- Lily o' the North -- McKeon's coming -- 'Poem' for Jerry Rasmussen -- Hearth and fire -- Schooner Fred Dunbar -- Bok and the moon -- You who have found your face -- Pearly -- Thumpy -- Turning of the year -- The kind land (Serinam) -- Entrained water.