The Dark-Eyed Sailor by Steeleye Span Song Details

Steeleye Span's ' "The Dark-Eyed Sailor" was released on its scheduled release date, June 1, 1970. This song is about six minutes long, preciously at 5:58, making this song fairly long compared to other songs. The track order of this song in Steeleye Span's "Hark! The Village Wait" album is number 5 out of 12. On top of that, United Kingdom appears to be the country where this track was created. In terms of popularity, The Dark-Eyed Sailor is currently below average in popularity. Even with the track produces more of a neutral energy, it is pretty danceable compared to others.

BPM and Tempo

We consider the tempo marking of The Dark-Eyed Sailor by Steeleye Span to be Andante (at a walking pace) because the track has a tempo of 104 BPM, a half-time of 52BPM, and a double-time of 208 BPM. Based on that, the speed of the song's tempo is slow. The time signature for this track is 4/4.

Music Key

This song has a musical key of D♭ Major. This also means that this song has a camelot key of 3B. So, the perfect camelot match for 3B would be either 3B or 4A. While, 4B can give you a low energy boost. For moderate energy boost, you would use 12B and a high energy boost can either be 5B or 10B. Though, if you want a low energy drop, you should looking for songs with either a camelot key of 3A or 2B will give you a low energy drop, 6B would be a moderate one, and 1B or 8B would be a high energy drop. Lastly, 12A allows you to change the mood.

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