Greenland Fisheries

Greenland Fisheries - The Highwaymen

'Twas in eighteen hundred and fifty three

And of June the thirteenth day

That our gallant ship her anchor weighed

And for greenland bore away brave boys

And for greenland bore away

The lookout in the crosstrees stood

With spyglass in his hand

There's a whale there's a

Whale there's whalefish he cried

And she blows at every span brave boys

She blows at every span

We stuck the whale the line paid out

But she made a flourish with her tail

The boat capsized and

Four men were drowned

And we never caught that whale brave boys

And we never caught that whale

To lose the whale our captain quike

It grieves my heart full sore

But oh to lose those four my gallant men

It grieves me ten times more brave boys

It grieves me ten times more

Oh greenland is a dreadful place

A land that's never green

Where there's ice and snow

Where the whalefishes blow

And the daylight's seldom seen brave boys

But the daylight's seldom seen

'Twas in eighteen hundred and fifty three

And of June the thirteenth day

That our gallant ship her anchor weighed

And for greenland say away brave boys

And for greenland say away

Say say away