Song Facts: Led Zeppelin, The Ocean

• The song The Ocean was always dedicated to the audience at Led Zeppelin concerts.
• The voice on the intro is drummer John Bonham. When he says, "We've done 4 already but now we're steady," he is referring to the amount of takes.
• In the last line, the "Girl who won my heart" is Robert Plant's daughter Carmen, who was 3 years old at the time.
• Robert Plant samples parts of this for his solo song "Tall Cool One” on the album "Now and Zen”.
• The Beasty Boys sampled the guitar riff on their song "She's Crafty." They also took samples of Bonham’s drums from “When the Levee Breaks”.
• John Paul Jones and John Bonham sing for one of the only times on a Zeppelin album. They are harmonizing the phrase "Doo wop" during the final minute of the song.
• If you listen carefully, you can hear a phone ringing in the studio at 1:37-1:38 and again (second ring) around 1:41.

Check out Led Zeppelin jammin' to "The Ocean", live from 1975:



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Lyrics to The Ocean:
We've done four already, but now we're steady.
And then they went... 1... 2... 3... 4...

Singing in the sunshine, laughing in the rain
Hitting on the moonshine, rocking in the grain
Ain't no time to pack my bag, my foots outside the door
Got a date, can't be late for the hellbound hailla ball.

Singing to an ocean, I can hear the ocean's roar
Play for free, play for me and play a whole lot more
Singing of the good things and the sun that lights the day
Singing to the ocean, has the ocean lost its way.

Sitting round singing songs til the night turns into day
Used to sing on the mountains but the mountains washed away
Now I'm singing all my songs to the girl who won my heart
She is only three years old and it's a real fine way to start

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