Ode to Big Blue (Album Version)

Ode to Big Blue (Album) - Gordon Lightfoot

The oceans of the world

Were the home of Big Blue

He was the greatest monster

That the world ever knew

And the place that he loved

Best was the waters to the west

Around the blue Pacific he did roam

Big Blue moved alone

For a mighty blue was he

And the battles of the whales

Was an awesome sight to see

And he took them one by one

And he drove them all away

In the mating of the day he was the king

Big Blue had fifty wives and he sired forty sons

Though most of them feel victim to

The cruel harpoon guns

Ah but he was too much wise to

Get caught by the gunner's eyes

And so he lived at sea a hundred years

His mouth was as large as a tunnel

So they say

His hide was thick as leather

And his eyes quick and small

And his back was all scarred by

The times he got away

And he knew the smell of whalers

Did Big Blue

Big Blue passed away to his natural decay

Beside the Arctic Circle as he traveled up that way

And there never was a man who

Was born with a gunner's hand

Who ever took a pan to Big Blue

Now the gray whale has run and

The sperm is almost done

The fin backs and the Greenland

Rights have all passed and gone

They've been taken by the men for

The money they could spend

And the killing never ends it just goes on

The oceans of the earth were

The home of Big Blue

He was the greatest monster

That the world ever knew

And the place that he loved

Best was the waters to the west

Around the blue Pacific he did roam