Dreamboat Annie

Album: Dreamboat Annie (1975)
Charted: 42
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  • Heading out this morning into the sun
    Riding on the diamond waves, little darlin' one

    Warm wind caress her
    Her lover it seems
    Oh, Annie, dreamboat Annie
    Ship of dreams
    Oh, Annie, dreamboat Annie
    Little ship of dreams

    Going down the city sidewalk alone in the crowd
    No one knows the lonely one whose head's in the clouds

    Sad faces painted over with those magazine smiles
    Heading out to somewhere
    Won't be back for a while

    Won't be back for a while
    Won't be back for a while
    Won't be back for a while Writer/s: Ann Wilson, Nancy Wilson
    Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Universal Music Publishing Group
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 9

  • Stu from KentuckyEasily one of the loveliest songs ever recorded. Only downside is the 2 minute version is too short.
  • Robert from Sw ColoradoI wonder if the Wilson sisters were some how inspired by the Pink Floyd's 1968 Roger Water's "Julia Dream" ? David Gilmour first song sung, sings "Julia dream, dreamboat queen
    Queen of all my dreams". Heart would go on to release 'Little Queen' in 1977.
  • Cleo from ChicagoI am CAPTIVATED by the bells and banjo in Dreamboat Annie! Genius! Whose idea was that!?!?!
  • Allen N from Roanoke, VaI love them the first time that I heard them play. (1972) Dream Boat Annie .
    I was a young man who loved music and when I heard their music that was all it took to make me a fan for life.
  • Adam Woodall from VancouverThere was a wreck of a tugboat named "Annie" that landed a ground in English Bay (Vancouver) in 1900. At 5:04 in this youtube video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25_KKdHVHFI
  • Grey Pilgrim from AzAnne in 1986: “heading out to Subway, won’t be back for a while. Annie, banana boat Annie...”
  • Vince from CanadaI heard this story a long time ago from a girl who used to live out West and knew the Wilson sisters....

    Apparently Anne Wilson was high on something (probably LSD) one afternoon, and was watching TV. The "Steamboat Willie" Mickey Mouse cartoon came on and she'd never seen it before (this was before VHS, DVDs, etc.) and was quite enamoured with it. She later had a drug-heightened dream where she was floating around on a cloud ship, seeing the world from a surrealistic cartoon-like and negative perspective, and when she woke, wrote down the concept of "Dreamboat Annie".

    If the story is true, it's essentially a drug-fueled dream sequence about Anne's loneliness and isolation brought on by (and partially named for) a Disney cartoon.
  • Barry from Sauquoit, NyOn December 12th 1976 "Dreamboat Annie" by Heart entered Billboard's Hot Top 100 chart; and on January 30th, 1970 it peaked at #42 and spent 10 weeks on the Top 100...
    Was one of three tracks from their 'Dreamboat Annie' album to make the Top 100 (others were "Magic Man", reached #9, and "Crazy on You" peaked at #35...
    The album reached #7 on Billboard's Top 100 Albums chart.
  • Ed from Canton, OhIs Dreamboat Annie an autobiographical song by Ann Wilson?
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