Valley Of The Giants - Whaling Tale lyrics

The story is about a rock penguin It's a small penguin not a king penguin You can see thousands of them breeding When the warm season starts And they only lay one egg at a time And if you take one away they lay another egg but no more But i want to tell this story really about one incident one day It was a gray misty day with the wind blowing hard And there was a heavy swell running And the whale factory was pitching and yawing Not really a very good day to pick up the whales over the stern of the factory ship There were one or two dead whales at the stern of the vessel And the whale cathcers where coming in with their whales And in the distance you could see the icebergs Quite a number of them And the men were trying to get ready to pull the whales over the stern of the vessel There was a pack of k**er whales around Which came tearing towards the factory ship And they tore chunks out of the whales There were a number of men at the stern of the veesssel with guns shooting at the k**er whales The minute they hit a k**er whale the rest of the pack went after him and tore him to pieces But lets get back to the story of the penguin I'd say there were about 6 or 7 whales some of them blue some of them fin At the stern of the vessel And there was that small rock penguin sitting on top of the whale back And as we were pulling up the whales one after another over the stern of the vessel It was rather difficult with the heavy swell running The penguin hopped from one whale to another The k**er whales were all around the dead whales They were tearing into them and the sea was red with blood And by that time there was a number of men from the whale factory coming astern and watching the penguin at the back of the whale And the men where shooting as fast as they could to stop the k**er whale from getting getting the penguin Which was sitting trying to hold on to the back of the whale But as the whale was pulled up the chute It was difficult for the winchman to regulate And he had to watch very carefully not to With the swell of the vessel With the swell of the sea running and the vessel moving To stop the penguin from slipping off its back The chute was quite steep it was about i would say 30 degrees And the little penguin climbed close to the tail of the whale From which the whale was pulled up the chute And the men were all standing around and watching and hoping that that penguin would finally get up get up on deck It took a long time to heave that last whale up If there was a swell the winchman up on top had to watch and be as careful as possible not to jerk and increase the movement So that the little penguin could stay on top We got him to the stern of the chute at the beginning of the chute And we got the We kept on We kept on slowly pulling and as we pulled the little penguin Slowly but surely went along the back of the whale from the tail of from the tail to the middle of to the middle of the back But at that time the sea was running heavy and the movement at the stern was rather erratic Finally when we got him up about 3/4 of the way I dont think there was a man working on the stern of the factory They were all watching and hoping too that the little penguin would get up on top As the k**er whales were just waiting down below and just watching And the men were shooting and trying to k** these k**er whales They were afraid that the little penguin might slip in the water Finally when we got it really all the way up Everybody started to breathe a sigh of relief But there was a heavy heavy swell which came under the factory And rolled the whale on the side and the little penguin slipped off And as it went down the chute the k**er whales got it Most of the men were not happy that day There were also ... there's millions of penguins That was one of the sights which i did not care to see again But thats the way in antarctic Theres no give and take Its a hard hard place to be in But C'est la vie