SEA SONGS - online songbook

70 Traditional Sea & sailing related songs with complete lyrics.

	A WHALER'S SONG.
	Oh ! there's never a game You landsmen can name With the sport that is known to a sailor ; There's never a chase On the land but gives place To the hunt that we know from a whaler. The look-out aloft Has looked oft and oft And never a cry has been calling; Now it's out loud he shouts, " There he spouts, there he spouts ; " And the mate, " Off, boats, off," sharp is bawling; " Give wray there ; he shows ; " Pull—pull—there he blows ;" The harpooner his tubbed rope's uncoiling;