Pete Seeger - The Greenland Fisheries lyrics

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-gla** 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