Gary Brooker explained in an interview with Songfacts how this song is an example of how he was always coming up with musical ideas that he could marry to Keith Reid's words. Said Brooker: "Usually the best combinations do happen very naturally. If we take something like 'A Salty Dog' that was a musical idea, it's very much a type of chord progression with a certain rhythm. And I think soon after I got that idea, Keith sent me the words and they were already done, and they just seemed to fit with it very, very easily."

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