Greenland Fishery

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 blow
 In the Greenland fishery, boys
 The Greenland fishery
 The lookout climbed the topmast 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
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 And the captain stood on the quarter deck
 And the ice was in his eye
 Overhaul, overhaul
 Let your davit tackle fall
 Let your harpoon fly, boys
 Let your harpoon fly
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 The harpoon struck and the line played out
 But the fish gave a flourish with her tail
 And the boats capsized and we lost a dozen men
 And a hundred barrels of oil, boys
 A hundred barrels of oil
 Well the losing of a dozen brave men
 It grieved the company sore
 But the losing of all those dollars and cents
 Grieved them ten times more, boys
 Grieved them ten times more