Sitting on the dock of the bay - Ottis Redding (1968)

The sound of the ocean waves together with soft guitar sucked me in to listen to the man's story. He had roamed a zillion miles just to make that Frisco dock his home. (Yet another song about San Francisco, the others 'Taxi' and 'If you're going to...' here on this same list!) Otis captured the mood perfectly.