Cobbles..... Whales.... Murder.... Man's moral less wanton crimes...
Lyrics
Get your cobbles me ladd's and we'll head for the mackerel Grounds
Get your nets out ladd's and we'll hunt the mackerel down
Dinnit tak lang me boys or the mackerel shoals'll gan
Far out ta sea where the barnacles clings to the clams
Look there they gan me ladd's can ya see them off the shore?
But it winnit tak lang for the buggers to sink below
Where the rolling waves are rolling on
As the cobbles row out in the early morn
Get ya main sails up me ladd's and we'll catch the morning breeze
Get ya halliard's out and we'll head for the open sea's
Waste nee time me boys and we'll roll out on the tide
Far out to sea where the shrimps and the limpets hide
Look to the port me ladd's see the mermaid down below
She's winking at me and enchanted I must go
Where the rolling waves are rolling on
Sailing out ta sea in the early morn
Get your harpoon ready ladd's now we've reached the whaling grounds
And we'll fill our bellies when we hunt the blue whale down
Dinnit tak nee chance me boys the blue whale is strang and fast
And we'll niver give up till the jaw bones raised on the mast
As she dives deep me ladd's give her rope and let her gan
And when the ocean's red and she's dead we'll tak her ta land
As the rolling waves are rolling on
We'll whale the sea's till the whales are gone
Lock ya daughters away the Auld John Burn's is in the Wear
There'll be canny gannins on in the inn's and the taverns round here
So tak care me boys with mangy pirates on the town
With gold to spend and drugs to pass around
They'll kiss ya ganny me ladd's as they drink the posset's dry
Get your deblunes out ladd's ya hear the lassies cry
As the rolling waves are rolling on
And the pirates will be gone in the early morn
And all in the town that wasn't nailed down
And the whalers whale till the whalers drown
And the sailing ships all run aground
As the mackerel men's cobbles bob up and down
As the whales in the watter mak an eerie sound
As the knickers in the Tavern's gan up and down
