《The Ballad of the Greenland Whale》歌词

[00:00:00] The Ballad of the Greenland Whalers - Chat Mitchell Trio

[00:00:00] Written by：Chad Mitchell

[00:00:03] On the twenty third day of the month of June

[00:00:06] In the year of '54

[00:00:09] They signed us weary whaler men

[00:00:12] To sail for greenland's shore brave boys

[00:00:16] To sail for greenland's shore

[00:00:19] Our gallant ship her sails we set

[00:00:22] For the icy greenland ground

[00:00:25] Well they said

[00:00:26] We'd take about a score or two a whale

[00:00:28] Before we're six months bound brave boys

[00:00:32] Before we're six months bound

[00:00:35] Oh the lookout up in the crosstree stood

[00:00:38] With a spyglass in his hand

[00:00:41] There's a whale there's a whale

[00:00:43] There's a whale fish he cried

[00:00:44] She blows on every span brave boys

[00:00:48] She blows on every span

[00:00:51] The captain stood on the quarterdeck

[00:00:54] With his eye to the icy sea

[00:00:57] Overhaul overhaul

[00:00:59] Let your davit tackles fall

[00:01:00] Put your boats on the water

[00:01:02] Cried he brave boys

[00:01:04] Put your boats on the water

[00:01:05] Cried he

[00:01:07] Well the boats got down and the crews aboard

[00:01:10] And the whale was in full view

[00:01:13] And the bosun roared

[00:01:15] Put your backs to the oars

[00:01:17] And steer where the whale fish blew

[00:01:19] Brave boys

[00:01:20] And steer where the whale fish blew

[00:01:35] Brave boys

[00:01:36] And steer where the whale fish blew

[00:01:39] Well the harpoon struck

[00:01:41] And the line played out

[00:01:42] And the whale gave a thunder with its tail

[00:01:45] And the boat capsized killing half a dozen men

[00:01:49] And we never did catch that whale

[00:01:52] Brave boys

[00:01:53] We never did catch that whale

[00:01:58] To lose those men

[00:01:59] The captain said

[00:02:01] Well it grieves my heart full sore

[00:02:04] But we knew the losing of that hundred barrel whale

[00:02:08] Well it grieved him ten times more

[00:02:11] Brave boys

[00:02:12] It grieved him ten times more

[00:02:16] Oh greenland is a dreadful place

[00:02:20] It's a place that's never green

[00:02:23] Where there's ice and snow

[00:02:25] And the whale fishes blow

[00:02:27] And the daylight's seldom seen

[00:02:29] Brave boys

[00:02:31] The daylight's seldom seen