Greenland

Greenland is a hell of a place

It's a place that's never green

Where there's ice and snow, and the whale fishes blow

And the daylight's seldom seen, brave boys

The daylight's seldom seen

In eighteen hundred and sixty-four

On June the thirteen day

Our gallant ship her anchor weighed

And for Greenland sailed away, brave boys

For Greenland sailed away

Well, our captain, he stood on the quarter deck

With a spy glass in his hand

There's a whale, there's a whale, there's a bloody great whale

And she blows on every span, brave boys

She blows on every span

We hit that whale and the line paid out

And she made a flunder with her tail

And the boat capsized and ten men were drowned

And we ne'er did catch that whale, brave boys

We ne'er did catch that whale

Well, the losing of those ten brave men

It grieves my heart full sore

But the losing of that bloody great whale

It grieves me ten times more, brave boys

It grieves me ten times more

Greenland is a hell of a place

It's a place that's never green

Where there's ice and snow, and the whale fishes blow

And the daylight's seldom seen, brave boys

The daylight's seldom seen

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