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If You Were a Sailboat" is a song by
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singer
Katie MeluaKetevan "Katie" Melua is a Georgian/British singer, songwriter and musician. She was born in Georgia, but moved to Northern Ireland at the age of eight and then relocated to England at the age of 14. Melua is signed to the small Dramatico record label, under the management of songwriter Mike Batt,...
. Written and produced by
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, it is Melua's ninth
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and the first from her third album,
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(2007). Melua said of the song:
It was released as a single on September 24, 2007. The CD single has three extra tracks exclusive to the release, including a version of
David GrayDavid Gray is an English singer-songwriter. Although he released his first studio album in 1993, he did not receive worldwide attention until the release of White Ladder six years later...
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This Year's Love"This Year's Love" is a song by artist David Gray from his fourth album White Ladder. Originally released in 1999 , it was re-issued in 2001.. The single peaked at #18 in the UK Singles Chart....
". In the week of 30 September, the song debuted at number twenty-three on the
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.
Parody version
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of
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was amused by the lyric 'If you were a piece of wood, I'd nail you to the floor', and asked his listeners to send in equally strange lyrics and compose a parody song for her to sing, not expecting her to actually do so.
However Melua sportingly contacted the show and agreed to play the song. The lyrics included 'If you were some tiling, I would grout you.' and 'If you were ten pints of beer, I would drink you down my dear'.
Track listings
- "If You Were a Sailboat"
- "Junk Mail"
- "Straight to DVD"
- "This Year's Love
"This Year's Love" is a song by artist David Gray from his fourth album White Ladder. Originally released in 1999 , it was re-issued in 2001.. The single peaked at #18 in the UK Singles Chart....
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Charts