Blue Water World

Peace ~ John Denver

Blue Water World

Blue water World is the name of a song John Denver wrote in the last months of his life. It was never recorded but when he sang it in concert during his last tour he dedicated it Jacques Cousteau who died in April 1997. Jacques Cousteau was one of John's heros and he featured him and his ship Calypso in a TV special 1975.

John loved the ocean. During the last year of his life he had a home at Carmel in California. He was staying there when he died in October of that year.

One of John's best known songs is 'Calypso', the song he wrote for Cousteau's ship of that name.

Calypso was named after a sea nymph from the Greek poem 'The Odyssey' who lived for a time on the Mediterranean island of Gozo where Cousteau found the ship.

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Cousteau's granddaughter, Alexandra Coustaeu, has plans to restore the Calypso, which is presently in the French resort of La Rochelle after sinking in Singapore in 1996. I think if John were still alive he would have supported this.

You can read about her ambitions and about the foundation created in memory of her father Phillipe Cousteau here.

Beautiful Point Lobos near where John had a house in the summer of 1997

"Blue water world,

Oceans and oceans,

Rain that falls like love as a gift from the sky.

Blue water world,

Rivers and streams

Like wishes and dreams that will come true by and by,

And the gift that was given to us we are bringing to you,

Our beautiful, beautiful, beautiful blue water world.

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