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Lyrics for Greenland Fisheries by Unknown:
| | | Artist: | Unknown |
| | Album: | Unknown | | Track: | Greenland Fisheries | | | | Date Added: | 18/10/2007 | | Views: | 170 | | | | Lyrics: | GREENLAND FISHERIES
1. 'Twas in eighteen hundred and fifty-three
And of June the
thirteenth day,
That our gallant ship her anchor weighed,
And for greenland bore
away, brave boys,
And for greenland bore away.
2. The lookout in the crosstrees
stood
With spyglass in his hand;
There's a whale, there's a whale, there's whalefish
he cried
And she blows at every span, brave boys
She blows at every
span.
3. The captain stood on the quarter deck,
And a fine little man was
he;
"Overhaul, overhaul! Let your davit tackles fall,
And launch your boats for sea,
brave boys
And launch your boats for sea.
4. Now the boats were launched and the men
aboard,
And the whale was full in view.
Resolv-ed was each seaman bold
To
steer where the whalefish blew, brave boys
To steer where the whalefish blew.
5.
We stuck the whale the line paid out,
But she gave a flourish with her tail,
The
boat capsized and four men were drowned,
And we never caught that whale, brave boys,
And we never caught that whale.
6. "To lose the whale," our captain said,
It
grieves my heart full sore,
But oh! to lose (those) four gallant men
It grieves me
ten times more brave boys
It grieves me ten times more.
7. The winter star doth
now appear,
So, boys we'll anchor weight;
It's time to leave this cold country
And homeward bear away, brave boys
And homeward bear away.
8. Oh greenland is a
dreadful place
A land that's never green
Where there's ice and snow, and the
whalefishes blow
(and the) daylight's seldom seen brave boys
But the daylight's
seldom seen.
1984
see also GREENLAN
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recorded by Weavers and MacColl
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