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Greenland Whale Fisheries

The Pogues

Red Roses for Me

1984

And a whalefish he cried
And she blows at every span, brave boys
She blows at every span.

The captain stood on the quarter deck,
The ice was in his eye;

It was the 21st of June, it being a glorious day
The Eclipse she saw a whale-fish and she lowered all hands away
So blow, ye winds of morning, blow,

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

Greenland Whale Fisheries

Peter, Paul and Mary

Folk Song America, Vol. 4

1994

stood
With a spyglass in his hand
There's a whale, there's a whale, there's a whalefish, he cried
And she blows at every span, brave boys
She blows

Blood Red Roses

Andrew Lloyd Webber

Off to Sea Once More

through the frost and snow.
It's 'round Cape Horn you've got to go,
For that is where them whalefish blow.
It's growl you may, but go you must,
If you growl

hand
There's a whale there's a whale
There's a whale-fish he cried
She blows at every span brave boys
She blows at every span

Well we struck that whale

Well he got his seaman's papers 
Clamzo, boys, Clamzo
He's a terror to the whalers 
Clamzo, me boys, Clamzo

And he sails where 'er the whalefish blow

through the frost and snow.
It's 'round Cape Horn you've got to go,

For that is where them whalefish blow.
It's growl you may, but go you must,
If you

through the frost and snow
It's 'round Cape Horn you've got to go
For that is where them whalefish blow
It's growl you may, but go you must
If you growl too

a terror to the whalers

Now he's known wherever them whale-fish blow
As the hardest master on the go

away! Haul away!
That is where them whale-fish blow!
And we're bound away for the whaling!

And it’s heave 'er up me, bully, bully boys!
Heave away! Haul

Well, the lookout on the crosstrees stood, a spyglass in his hand
"There's a whale, there's a whale, there's a whalefish!" he cried
"And she blows