XTC - The Man Who Sailed Around His Soul

“The Man Who Sailed Around His Soul“ is a song by Andy Partridge. It appeared on the 1986 album Skylarking. The demo appeared on Andy’s Fuzzy Warbles Volume 6 in 2004. A promo video was filmed for TV show The Tube. Andy: “. . . ‘The Man Who Sailed’ initially was a folk thing with acoustic guitar interweaving, but Todd wrote a brass arrangement for it. It has since come out as a cross between Bobby Darin’s ‘Mack the Knife’ and Lena Horne’s ‘Fever’! It’s sort of a big band number.” Andy (on the demo): “The Holy Grill of some XTC demo collectors (bet you wished you hadn’t bothered now!?) Didn’t know whether this would make Skylarking so I never made an effort with the lyrics. When I did finish them, I think they turned out probably my favourite song words I’d ever written. I don’t travel much these days. I’m more the man who sallied around his soil.” Lyrics: The man who sailed around his soul From East to West, fr