| Lyrics: | Greenland Monopole
SOURCE: Bob Pfeffer
SOURCE'S SOURCE: Original,
composed June 1987
COMMENTS: Composed for Harry Berkowitz and performed at his
farewell
luncheon from Fort Monmouth, with many obscure references
familiar only to its source and subject
AIR: Greenland Whale
Fisheries
TEXT:
D A7 D A7
'Twas in nineteen
hundred and sixty-five
D A7
And of June the thirteenth day
D G
That we weighed our anchors to our bow
D
A7 D
And for Greenland bore away, brave boys,
A7
D
And for Greenland bore away.
Bold Stanley was our captain's name
And our ship
the DIMOS bold,
And we poor souls our anchors weighed
To face the storms and cold, brave
boys,
To face the storms and cold.
And when we arrived in that cold
countree
The icecap to explore
We wished ourselves at the Evans Area
On New Jersey's
sunlit shore, brave boys,
On New Jersey's sunlit shore.
"Then at it, boys," our
captain said.
"To the tunnel let us go."
And we spread our mats in the gloom and the
dark
To melt those tons of snow, brave boys,
To melt those tons of snow.
And
when our labors all were done
And our backs did ache full sore
The mats went to gallant
Louie Alvarez
And we went to the bar, brave boys,
And we went to the bar.
And
when we returned to our homes so dear
Louie told a dreadful tale:
His postdocs got drunk
and they fell in the machine
And the whole experiment failed, brave boys,
And the whole
experiment failed.
Now the losing of those young postdocs
It grieves my heart full
sore,
But the losing of that Nobel Prize
It grieves me ten times more, brave boys,
It
grieves me ten times more.
Now Greenland is a dreadful place,
A land that's never
green,
Where there's ice and there's snow and the physicists all go
And daylight's seldom
seen, brave boys,
And daylight's seldom seen.
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