The Greenland Whale Fisheries-Pete Seeger

[ti:The Greenland Fisheries] [ar:Pete Seeger] [al:Folk Music Of The World] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]The Greenland Whale Fisheries - Pete Seeger [00:07.92]When the whale gets striked [00:09.92] [00:10.66]And the line run down [00:12.85] [00:13.72]And the whale makes a flunder with his tail [00:17.44] [00:18.63]And the boat capsized [00:20.59]And I lost my darlin' man [00:23.41] [00:24.68]No more no more Greenland for you brave boys [00:31.67] [00:32.70]No more no more Greenland for you [00:40.07] [00:42.56]It was in eighteen hundred and sixty three [00:47.28]Of June the thirteenth day [00:50.74] [00:51.27]That our gallant ship her anchor weighed [00:55.49]And for Greenland bore away brave boys [01:00.41]For Greenland bore away [01:03.56] [01:04.91]The look-out in the crosstree stood [01:08.84]With a spy-glass in his hand [01:12.30] [01:13.03]There's a whale there's a whale [01:15.21]There's a whale-fish he cried [01:17.67]She blows at every span brave boys [01:22.41]She blows at every span [01:26.03] [01:28.26]Well we struck that whale and the line paid out [01:32.89]But she made a flunder with her tail [01:36.22] [01:37.38]The boat capsized and I lost my darlin' man [01:41.67]And we never caught that whale brave boys [01:46.64]We never caught that whale [01:50.11] [01:51.54]Oh Greenland is a dreadful place [01:55.89] [01:56.48]A land that's never green [02:00.78]Where there's ice and snow [02:03.32]And the whale-fishes blow [02:05.85]And daylight's seldom seen brave boys [02:11.32]And daylight's seldom seen