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Viewing Lyrics for The Coast Of Peru:
| | | Artist: | Lloyd |
| | Album: | Miscellaneous | | Track: | The Coast Of Peru | | | | Date Added: | 18/10/2007 | | Views: | 198 | | | | Lyrics: | The Coast of Peru
Come all ye young fellows that's bound after sperm
Come all ye
young fellows that's rounded the Horn
Our captain has told us, and we hope it will come
true
That there's plenty of sperm whales on the coast of Peru.
We have weathered the
Horn, and are now on Peru,
We are all of one mind and endeavor to do,
Our boats are all
rigged and our masthead all manned,
Our riggin' rove right and our signals all
planned.
The first whale we saw, it was late in the day
The captain come up and
these words he did say:
"Get into your hammocks and quiet there be
We'll see him in the
morning close under our lee."
Next morning at daybreak about five o'clock,
The man
at the masthead cried "Yonder she spouts!
Where away does she lay?" and the answer from
aloft
"Two points on our lee bow and about three miles off."
Then it's call up all
hands, and be of good cheer;
Put your tubs in your boats, boys, have your bow lines all
clear.
Sway up your boats now, jump in you boat's crew
Lower away now lower away, my brave
fellows, do.
Our waist boat got down and of course got the start,
Lay on, captain
Bunker, I'm hell for to dart.
Now bend to your oars, boys, and make your boat fly
But one
thing we dread of, be clear of his eye.
Now the chief mate he struck him, and the whale
he went down
And the captain pulled up and he tried to bend on,
But the whale began to
vomit and blood for to spout,
And in less than ten minutes we had him fin out.
We
towed him alongside,and with many a shout
We soon cut him in, and began to try out.
Now
our whale she is tried and likeways stowed down
She is better to us boys than five hundred
pounds.
Here's a health to all whalemen, boys, drink it down, do
Likewise to the
Bengal and our whaleship's crew.
All you that want money, I would have you to go
On the
coast of Peru where the sperm whales do blow.
From Gale Huntington's book- Songs
the Whalemen Sang. Collected
from logbook of Ship Bengal, journal of Ira Poland,
1832.
Recorded by A. L. Lloyd- Haul on the Bowline (sl. different,
different tune), Warner
and Davis (?)
@sailor @whaling
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