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[00:00.00]The Ballad of the Greenland Whalers - Chat Mitchell Trio
[00:01.57]Written by：Chad Mitchell
[00:03.15]On the twenty third day of the month of June
[00:06.32]In the year of '54
[00:09.49]They signed us weary whaler men
[00:12.96]To sail for greenland's shore brave boys
[00:16.25]To sail for greenland's shore
[00:19.25]Our gallant ship her sails we set
[00:22.26]For the icy greenland ground
[00:25.53]Well they said
[00:26.29]We'd take about a score or two a whale
[00:28.96]Before we're six months bound brave boys
[00:32.20]Before we're six months bound
[00:35.15]Oh the lookout up in the crosstree stood
[00:38.31]With a spyglass in his hand
[00:41.55]There's a whale there's a whale
[00:43.23]There's a whale fish he cried
[00:44.96]She blows on every span brave boys
[00:48.20]She blows on every span
[00:51.38]The captain stood on the quarterdeck
[00:54.49]With his eye to the icy sea
[00:57.66]Overhaul overhaul
[00:59.34]Let your davit tackles fall
[01:00.87]Put your boats on the water
[01:02.54]Cried he brave boys
[01:04.14]Put your boats on the water
[01:05.79]Cried he
[01:07.34]Well the boats got down and the crews aboard
[01:10.61]And the whale was in full view
[01:13.81]And the bosun roared
[01:15.47]Put your backs to the oars
[01:17.30]And steer where the whale fish blew
[01:19.57]Brave boys
[01:20.56]And steer where the whale fish blew
[01:35.34]Brave boys
[01:36.19]And steer where the whale fish blew
[01:39.45]Well the harpoon struck
[01:41.04]And the line played out
[01:42.70]And the whale gave a thunder with its tail
[01:45.92]And the boat capsized killing half a dozen men
[01:49.95]And we never did catch that whale
[01:52.42]Brave boys
[01:53.56]We never did catch that whale
[01:58.18]To lose those men
[01:59.87]The captain said
[02:01.28]Well it grieves my heart full sore
[02:04.61]But we knew the losing of that hundred barrel whale
[02:08.65]Well it grieved him ten times more
[02:11.19]Brave boys
[02:12.19]It grieved him ten times more
[02:16.93]Oh greenland is a dreadful place
[02:20.26]It's a place that's never green
[02:23.49]Where there's ice and snow
[02:25.05]And the whale fishes blow
[02:27.49]And the daylight's seldom seen
[02:29.98]Brave boys
[02:31.09]The daylight's seldom seen