Lyrics:
strike, and the line runs out
And the whale makes a flunder with its tail
And the boat capsized and I lost my darlin' man
No more, no more Greenland for
that whale
Oh Greenland is a dreadful place
A land that's never green
Where there's ice and snow
And the whale-fishes blow
And daylight's seldom seen
there's no bird in Greenland
To sing to the whale
There is no habitation
For a man to live there
And the king of that country
Is the fierce
boys
And for Greenland sailed away
The lookout in the cross trees stood
With spyglass in his hand
There's a whale, there's a whale
And a whale
boys
And for Greenland bore away
The lookout on the cross-tree stood
With a spyglass in his hand; "There's a whale there's a whale
There's a whale fish"
hearts never fail
For the bonny ship, the Diamond, goes a-fishing for the whale
For it's cheer up me lads, let your hearts never fail
For the bonny ship,
boys, we ne'er did catch that whale
For Greenland is a hell of a place
It's a place that's never green
Where there's ice and there's snow
The Diamond is a ship my boys, for Greenland she is bound
And the quay it is all garnished with bonny lassies 'round
The Captain gives the order
brave boys,
And for Greenland sailed away.
The lookout in the crosstrees stood
With spyglass in his hand;
There's a whale, there's a whale
The Diamond is a ship my boys, for Greenland she is bound
And the quay it is all garnished with bonny lassies 'round
The Captain gives the order
of Greenland
Most dreadful and monstrously big
Old Willie he knew what the whales would do
When they'd see a whale they wanted to woo
They'd float on their
hearts never fail
For the bonny ship the Diamond
Goes a-fishing for the whale
It will be bright both day and night
When the Greenland lads come
The Diamond
Goes a-fishing for the whale.
It'll be bright both day and night when the Greenland lads
come hame,
With a ship that's fu'o' oil, my lads,
the Diamond
Goes a-fishin' for the whale
Oh, it'll be a bright wee day and
Night when the Greenland boys come hame
With a ship that's full of oil, my lads
boys,
And for Greenland sailed away.
The lookout in the crosstrees stood
With spyglass in his hand;
There's a whale, there's a whale,
And a whalefish he
The Diamond
Goes a-fishing for the whale
It'll be bright both day and night when the Greenland lads come home
With a ship thats fu' o' oil, me boys, and money
the bonnie ship the Diamond
Goes a-hunting for the whale
It will be bright both day and night
When the Greenland lads come hame
Our ship full up with
am the last of the great Whales, and I am dying
It'll be bricht both the day and nicht when the Greenland lads come hame
Wae a ship that's full of oil
Whale Song
If I had the wings of a gull me boys, I'd spread them and fly home
I'd leave old Greenland's icy ground for of right whales there is
the bonnie ship the Diamond
Goes a-searching for the whale
Along the quay at Peterhead
The lasses stand aroon
their shawls all pulled around them
And the saut
the waters to the west
Around the blue Pacific he did roam
Big Blue moved alone for a mighty blue was he
And the battles of the whales was an awesome
There's nothing makes a Greenland whale
Feel half so high and mighty
As sitting on a mantelpiece
In Aunty Mabel's nighty.
It makes a change
of greed and no respect
When the impact is unknown
From stripping Earth down to the bone
Now we languish on the shore
For the fishery is no more
Though
The St. Germaine had followed her up the western coast of Greenland
Through the cold, grey, haunted sea
When they caught sight of the ice flow
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