Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song Old Polina, artist - Fiddler's Green. Date of issue: 25.07.2013
Song language: English
Old Polina |
| There’s a noble fleet of whalers, they’re sailing from Dundee |
| Manned by British sailors that take them o’er the sea |
| On a western ocean passage, we started on the trip |
| We flew along just like a song on a gallant whaling ship |
| Was the second Sunday morning, just after leaving port |
| We met a heavy sou’west gale and washed away our boat |
| It washed away our quarterdeck, our stanchions just as well |
| And so we set the whole shabang a floatin' in the gale |
| For the wind was on our quarter, the engines working free |
| There’s not another whaler that sails the Arctic Sea |
| Can beat the old Polina, you need not try my sons |
| We challenged all both great and small from Dundee to St John’s |
| Art Jackman set his canvas, Fair Weather galloped steam |
| And Captain Guy the daring boy came plunging through the stream |
| And Mullins in the Husky tried to beat the bloody lot |
| But to beat the Old Polina boys was something he could not |
| For the wind was on our quarter, the engines working free |
| There’s not another whaler that sails the Arctic Sea |
| Can beat the old Polina, you need not try my sons |
| We challenged all both great and small from Dundee to St John’s |
| There’s the noble Terra Nova, a model without doubt |
| The Arctic and Aurora, they talk so much about |
| Art Jackman’s model mail boat, the terror of the sea |
| Tried to beat the old Polina on a passage from Dundee |
| For the wind was on our quarter, the engines working free |
| There’s not another whaler that sails the Arctic Sea |
| Can beat the old Polina, you need not try my sons |
| We challenged all both great and small from Dundee to St John’s |
| Now we’re back in old St. John’s where rum is very cheap |
| We’ll drink a health of Captain Guy who brought us o’er the deep |
| A health to all our sweethearts, and to our wives so fair |
| Not another ship could make the trip, the Polina I declare ! |
| For the wind was on our quarter, the engines working free |
| There’s not another whaler that sails the Arctic Sea |
| Can beat the old Polina, you need not try my sons |
| We challenged all both great and small from Dundee to St John’s |
| For the wind was on our quarter, the engines working free |
| There’s not another whaler that sails the Arctic Sea |
| Can beat the old Polina, you need not try my sons |
| We challenged all both great and small from Dundee to St John’s |