Greenland Fishery - Bonny Light Horseman, Eric D. Johnson, Anaïs Mitchell

No more, no more can we stay on shore

Gonna work for the company

Where there’s ice and there’s snow and the whale-fishes play

And the Greenland Fishery, boys

The Greenland Fishery

The lookout climbed the top mast high

With a spyglass in his hand

«There's a whale, there’s a whale, there’s a whale-fish,» he cried

«And she blows at every span, boys

She blows at every span»

And the captain stood on the quarterdeck

And the ice was in his eye

«Overhaul, overhaul, let your davit tackle fall

Let your harpoon fly, boys

Let your harpoon fly»

The harpoon struck and the line played out

But the fish gave a flash with the tail

And the boats capsized and we lost a dozen men

And a hundred barrels of oil, boys

A hundred barrels of oil

With the losing of a dozen brave men

It grieved the company sore

But the losing of all those dollars and cents

Grieve them ten times more, boys

Grieve them ten times more