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"My Ship Will Sail" sounds like an old classic, but it is actually
a relatively new classic. It was written by the prolific songwriter
Allen Reynolds (some of his huge cataglog includes "Catfish John,"
Waylon Jennings' "Dreaming My Dreams With You," "Five O'Clock World,"
"Everybody's Reaching Out for Somebody," "I Recall a Gypsy Woman,"
and "Wrong Road Again") only in the 1970s. It came to John's
attention trough Jack Clement, with whom Reynolds wrote "Take Me
Home" for John's 1966 album "Everybody Loves a Nut." John also
recorded Reynolds' "Didn't He Shine" at a Clement-produced session,
but it was never released, and also his "We Must Believe in Magic"
(which is, IMHO, the most excruciatingly awful arrangement of a
Johnny Cash song ever--thank you Clement, who produced the album on
which it showed up, "The Adventures of Johnny Cash").
Clement produced a Cash/Jennings session in October 1974--none of
the four songs recorded were ever released--where John first did the
song. Then John participated in an Earl Scruggs project where he and
Scruggs did it together (this came out on the latter's "Anniversary
Album Vol 2").
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