Charles, Ray - A Ship Without A Sail Lyrics

Oh my God.

It feels like those voices are calling to me from a faraway place that I never knew existed, yet instantly recognized

:0 I just came here because Zion.moreno recommend it to listen on insta!

Why Kendrick Lammar is in this disc portrait?

I *LOOOOVE* this whole album, and this track best of all.
❤💛💚💙💜💖
For many months, DJ Matt Anthony would open Louisville's WFPK Friday Night SoundClash with this tune. We *never* got tired of it and when I suggested we look it up tonight, we were both ecstatic throughout

Armie has good taste in music wbk

Thanks to you Armie !! 👍👌🤟🍭🧗

Blackness made this morning. You all owe us.

Thank you Cupcake lander <3

Yes indeed ......

Absolute classic.

complete top class bang on tune. expect a primal scream cover soon..come on bobby G ... I dare you

And I'm here because of "Boze Ciało" a Polish movie with this music.

This could well be the best blues track I've ever heard.

All praise be to god

Thanks unplugem for the music .... "Sean connery" brother bonnie wee 'Scotland 😂

Love love this... this song has His Spirit!

This is excellent. Sounds like a soulful Crosby Stills & Nash song

Such a powerful song! I ain't christian, but this makes me feel so blessed, whenever I feel mad, sad or depressed, first thing I do is start singing this, guess it became my mantra after all.

God is beautiful!

Anyone know where I could find the sheet music or a tutorial?

(Just like a ship)
Without a sail
(Without a sail)
Just like a ship
(Just like a ship)
Without a sail
(Without a sail)
But I'm not worried because I know
(But I know we can take it)
I know
(But I know we can take it)
I know we can shake it
(But I know we can take it)
I know we can take it
(But I know we can take it)
I sail for pleasure
(I sail for pleasure)
But I found pain
(But I found pain)
I look for sunshine
Yes I did (I look for sunshine)
But I found rain
(But I found rain)
And then I look for my friends
(I look for my friends)
They all walked away
(But they walked away)
Through all the sorrows
(Through all of the sorrows)
You can hear me say
(You can hear me say)
Hey, hey, hey, I know
(But I know we can take it)
Just to know one thing, but I know
(But I know...) Sure gonna make it
I know we can shake it
(But I know...) 'Cause we are proud people
I know we can take it
(But I know we can take it)
(Just like a ship without a sail)
(We did our work today)
(Just like a ship without a sail)
(We did our work today)
(Just like a ship)
Without a sail
(Without a sail)
Just like a ship
(Just like a ship)
Lord knows I don't have a sail
(Without a sail)
Hey, hey, but I know
(But I know we can take it)
Hey, I know
(But I know we can take it)
I know we can shake it
(But I know we can take it)
I know we can take it
(But I know we can take it)
1971

Thank you

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1.5x speed itsa bop

I want to thank my record collection for bringing me here. I've owned this record for years and absolutely love, LOVE it ❤❤❤!!!

2:39 This part OMG ...

These basslines!

Aaaand he ripped off the ministry and skipped town

one of the most beautiful songs i’ve ever heard

I know, right? Like somewhere between my alone time in the day and into my dreams. Hypnotic.

This bih have my so lit

Wow, our life in church growing up in the 901, Tenneessee. Beautiful creations beyond self. The youth born to naturally be winners and make the change throughout obstacles, enlightening through many visuals and harmony. (which means "everyone altogether") Unity is as God is.

this is music you listen to when driving by the city

One of the greatest recordings ever

I heard this in Urban Outfitters Store, and immediately Shazam it

Derrick Phelps Me too LOL!

You'll have to let me know so I can shop there. :-) R

Does anyone know the words that are being sung by the choir starting 2:40?

"I'm just like a ship without a sail
We did our work today"

I heard this on the radio (local college station) a few months ago and was mesmerized. I can't see how anyone can hear this and not believe there is a God.

Tonight, first time heard on KMHD out of Gresham Oregon., now I'm hooked on this song That station, for the most part, are an incredibly wonderful bunch.

This is god manifested in musical form

INSPIRED!

Last Chance University

This was the opening song for the new season of "Last Chance University" on Netflix. They opened up the new season with "Like a Ship" because of that turmoil of their last football season. #GreatSong

last chance u brought me here

heavy breather sent me

heard this at my job man this is top notch

Pastor T.L Barrett really had pipes man

hits deep.. :)  :( :)

in time

this was then

:) :( :) :( :) :(

this is then

see you in another year

17 people got sea sick.

this was the ending to a movie - HELP what was it!???

sooo funky!!!

Like others here....heard a small snippet of this on People of Earth and Soundhounded it. Can't believe how old this song is! I like their sound...different, almost like it was recorded in a closet. I heard another song by this choir that I liked as well. Loving the instrumentation too, particularly the piano. Thank you for posting.

Eerily beautiful. Whenever the choir starts holding a note and going slightly flat, I expect the song to devolve into a trippy, psychedelic breakdown.

Thanks Jamie Cullum :)

Great song.

Play this at my funeral

KEXP Seattle brought me here. Great song!

what flick is this from? driving me crazy....

I heard it from a movie called Joshy

Found this from People of Earth. Love it.

I absolutely love it - found it from the same source.

help, pls, what end of movie is this from??? ps. I LOVE LOVE LOVE it!

amazing

Joshy brought me to the Pastor and his flock! I want to be in this group performing this piece! It is gold!

Help me fund my Christian clothing brand, "Bethezda" ! The link is below. God bless !
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i'm not religious, but this is heavenly.

Thanks to Jesus, I agree.. it's a wonder of music! Jesus loves us, matey!

Those sopranos at 2:43 sent CHILLS down my spine.

8thwonder0608 I feel ya

The bass line does that for me.

Good god born again funk compilation of gospel soul music...

And there are people who say they don't like gospel...

Cut through the bullshit of religious ideology and you're left with the beauty and strength of the human soul...music, GOOD music comes from this source.

something so eerie yet beautiful about this

There is an eerie quality to this, maybe the distant sounding choir & how it's mixed.
It has that post 60's-early 70's dream-like vibe to it.

Ab Luther when the choir goes slightly out of tune when holding notes it gets sort of creepy

Ab Luther omg I was scrolling through comments and saw yrs. it's pascal HI

Amazing song

This is so beautiful I can't even-*starts bawling*

Thank you Kanye for introducing me to this guy, his music is really good!!!!! :)

Kanye sampled this? Do you know which song? Would love to hear it.

+Evan Hill no Ye sampled another song by this artist.

not this, but Father Stretch My Hand

This was on last chance U

I don't even believe in god, but this is my shit.

Don't be upset junior, not everyone believes in a magic sky wizard.

ElijahCHAOTIC how Christian of you

First world foolishness

that's how I feel about his Father stretch my hands joint I don't deny good music

This music only exists through God

Alabama Shakes bring me here!!! oh my god, such a great song!!

Me too.

The Arcs bring me here!

BRILLIANT!! Brittany Howard and Alabama Shakes use this as their 'Walk On' music at the beginning of live concert performances.

Reason I am here. It was EPIC at Coachella. Pure soul.

I watched their 2013 set at Jazzfest on AXStv. For the few bars they played before Alabama Shakes started their set, I have been haunted by this record. Had no idea who sung it but one evening listening to WWOZ online recently,DJ Soul Sister played a song "After The Rain" by this group and I knew that I had found the group that sung the opening for Alabama Shakes.

Nice,I thank Kanye for leading me here. And for his intro on Father Stretch my hands. But as soon as he opens his mouth for the fist sentence of that verse, I'm done. Done Bruh!

TevyeWill Amen

Real speak. He should've just put the instrumental on the album instead lol

So good

This one of Spencer's go to's.

If you hit thumbs down on this you're a complete and total idiot and have no business being here. This is ten thumbs wayy up your ass!

This song though........👍🏽

Real soul.

Set no path, never lose your way.

A whole different take on "Soul Power". My local coffee shop was playing (what I assume was) a Sunday morning Songza playlist and this came up. Floored me on the spot.

Spotify suggested this. I love it. #uplifted

Spotify put it on my Discover Weekly last week and I can't stop listening.

bprett same!!!💓

How I used to cry to this song and drunkenly call my mother at like 3 in the morning. I still drink, but I'm not crying anymore. Like a ship everyone. I got my sail.

+Josh B man i was just thinking, this song makes me wanna cry.

good to hear you're doing a lot better mate

Hallelujah!!

on same page love....xo

A sail is over-rated, float where the gods may take you.

Panda Bear brought me here after listening to his Sirius XMU set

I found my people :))

what's this kind of music? I want to hear that music like this.

+Java Cerrado Gospel music, perhaps Gospel blues would be a more accurate description.

@Kevin McLaughlin great. thank you dude. really.

+Java Cerrado haha I know you're serious but it almost seems like you're being sarcastic

@Oliver Katz no, i'm not. i was really thanks to him.

Wish pastor was still around today to help the youth in Chicago. So tragic to see what is becoming of my hometown.

YOU are their sail. If not you, who?

I would like to thank KEXP for exhuming this

played on radio 1 last week

Heard this just before the Alabama Shakes went on at a show in Toronto last week. The vibe got everyone moving and it was nice hearing this being blasted over an outdoor concert sound system. Luckily someone was able to tell me who it was. Amazing.

Same here, but it was for their Coachella performance last year.

Chekita Turner same here but in Berkeley at the Greek

Same - heard this at a Wood Brothers show.. Had to find out what was this incredible vibe..

fall in love with this songg <3

Such a luminescent vibe. Hearing this for the first time was yet another one of those "where have you been all my life?" moments in music that I love.

I just heard this for the first time on cbc radio a few hrs ago and I almost wept.

Man this song hits me so hard! Looking for spirituality and whatever it ends up being this recording speaks to it!

relayer43 yup me too!!!!

My God, wait till i tell my sister Margo I found this on you tube.  We listened to Pastor T L Barrett forever.  While he was on the radio in the mornings in 1971 I was in 8th grade all the way through high school.  He was so phenomenal back in the day.   

Marsha Taylor hi that's my daf

Marsha Taylor I love that story x

@kishab02 kool

Where can I buy a copy of this?

@Yogi Haughton http://lightintheattic.net/releases/481-like-a-ship-without-a-sail

this is a damn fine song.

Love my pastor the great T.L. Barrett  and the Youth for Christ Choir circa 1971 putting it down!

Top tune ..

fucking wicked