Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song The Greenland Fisheries, artist - Pete Seeger. Album song Folk Music Of The World, in the genre Музыка мира
Date of issue: 31.12.2005
Record label: Legacy International
Song language: English
The Greenland Fisheries |
When the whale gets striked and the line run down |
And the whale makes a flunder with his tail |
And the boat capsized and I lost my darlin' man |
No more no more Greenland for you brave boys |
No more no more Greenland for you |
'Twas in eighteen hundred and sixty three |
Of June the thirteenth day |
That our gallant ship her anchor weighed |
And for Greenland bore away brave boys |
For Greenland bore away |
The look-out in the crosstree stood |
With a spy-glass in his 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 and the line paid out |
But she made a flunder with her tail |
The boat capsized and I lost my darlin' man |
And we never caught that whale brave boys |
We never caught 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 brave boys |
And daylight’s seldom seen |