Greenland Whale Fisheries-The Weavers

[00:03.00]When the whale gets strike, and the line run down, [00:09.27]And the whale makes a flunder with its tail, [00:17.40]And the boat capsized, and I lost my darling man; [00:25.32]No more, no more Greenland for you, brave boys, [00:35.85]No more, no more Greenland for you. [00:45.78]It was in eighteen hundred and fifty-three, [00:48.60]On June the thirteenth day, [00:53.88]That our gallant ship her anchor weighed [00:58.26]And for Greenland sailed away, brave boys, [01:00.75]And for Greenland sailed away. [01:09.69]The lookout on the crosstree stood [01:11.25]With a spyglass in his hand. [01:16.98]"There's a whale, there's a whale, [01:19.23]there's a whalefish," he cries, [01:20.22]"She blows out every span, brave boys, [01:27.87]She blows out every span." [01:29.82]We struck that whale and the line paid out, [01:34.17]But she made a flunder with her tail; [01:38.49]And the boat capsized and four men were drowned, [01:42.78]And we never caught that whale whale, brave boys, [01:47.07]We never caught that whale. [01:51.33]"To lose the whale," the captain cried, [01:54.72]"It grieves my heart full sore; [01:59.61]But to lose four of my gallant crew, [02:04.14]It grieves me ten times more, brave boys, [02:08.61]It grieves me ten time more." [02:34.05]Oh, Greenland is a dreadful place, [02:38.31]A land that's never green, [02:42.27]Where there's ice and snow, and the whalefishes blow, [02:46.77]And daylight is seldom seen, brave boys, [02:51.15]And daylight is seldom seen. [02:55.41]When the whale gets strike, and the line run down, [03:02.79]And the whale makes a flunder with its tail, [03:05.19]And the boat capsized, and I lost my darling man; [03:16.56]No more, no more Greenland for you, brave boys, [03:26.73]No more, no more Greenland for you.