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Home is the sailor and the hunter home from the hill, Tom Lewis

Tom Lewis served in the British Royal Navy for 24 years, and for the past 30 years has made a living as a musician, singing songs about the sea for folk music audiences around the world. So it would be fair to assume that Lewis spent his life on the open seas, and lying in his bunk at night, writing songs about his adventures. Nothing could be further for the truth. The reality is that Lewis suffers from severe seasickness, and as far as music goes, "It did not register in my brain at all that I might ever do this," he says. He began his naval career as an engineering apprentice. Four years later, he was a trained marine engineer. "Then when they send me to sea, I find out I was chronically and irrevocably seasick." That led to him joining the submarine service, because he didn't get sick when a submarine went underwater. After retiring in 1983, he and his wife, Lynn, moved to the Canadian Rockies, where Lewis planned on becoming a blacksmith. Instead, he wrote songs, which made their way to New England. "I started getting invitations to come and sing them," Lewis says. "That sort of morphed into what might be loosely termed a career