This song was huge when I was a kid in California, where I was born. It reminds me of my first step-father. He was a second class boiler tech aboard the USS Ogden. When he had come back from his active duty tour in the Sea of Japan in support of Vietnam, he was transferred to the USS Ogden at the Port of Los Angeles. Then the USS Ogden was moved to the Port of San Diego and we moved with it, of course.
This song was originally published in 1972 but it was still getting airplay a few years later.
I covered this song, it was such a song for me.