FAMILY JAM - Whaler's Song
Bibi Gee: lead vocals & guitar Slidie Redd': guitar & vocals Smokin' Joe: acoustic bass Robert Allen: banjo & vocals
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WHALER’S SONG
There’s fog upon the ocean
And we been up for days
The captain he looks fearsome
Cryin “Boys, we lost our way!”
Since we set out from Nantucket
There’s been no land in sight
You can’t see no horizon
You can’t tell day from night
Strike it up, boys!
Go strike up, boys!
Let’s go strike up for the whale & the sea
The water in the barrels
Is rottin since last June
We been runnin on Tequila
But the booze’ll run out soon
Ol’ Ira from New Bedford
He had a mighty thirst
He swore the sea would get him
But the booze got him first
Strike it up, boys!
Go strike up, boys!
Let’s go strike up for the whale & the sea
At the top mast hangs a picture
Of a gal with long brown hair
No one ever talks about it
No one knows who put it there
I’m thinking ‘bout her often
When up alone on guard
When the blackness of my memory
Comes swallow up my heart
Sometimes it is so quiet
You get scared by your own breath
And you hear ‘em silent voices
Of someone talkin to his death
Then there’s a sudden laughter
And you hear ‘em dices roll
And the voice says “’fore ye get me
Ye gotta pay the boys their toll!”
Strike it up, boys!
Go strike up, boys!
Let’s go strike up for the whale & the sea
© 1997
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