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4 Oh, when this whale we did harpoon She made one slap with her tail.
She capsized our boat, we lost five of our crew, Neither did we Catch that whale, brave boys, Neither did we catch that whale.
5 "Sad news, sad news," to our captain we cried, Which grieved his heart in. full store,*
But the losing of five of his jolly, jolly crew, Oh, it grieved him ten times more, brave boys, Oh, that grieved him ten times more.
6 "Hist your anchors then, brave boys," said he. "Let us leave this cold countery
Where the storm and the snow and the whalefish does blow, And daylight's seldom seen, brave boys, And daylight's seldom seen."
* "In full sore,"
THE BEAVER ISLAND BOYS
d. No. 2274. Tune, Bominick Gallegher: ttxty A.A.F.S. No. 2273. Johnny Green, Beaver Island, Mich., Sept., 1938. See Ri, p. 159.
"It was in '74 that this song was composed by a man by the name of Daniel Malloy. He was an old whale fisherman. He spent two years among the Eskimos up in the North Pole when he was whale fishing.
"Three men went out of this harbor in a small boat to go to Traverse City for supplies^ and they left there in a gale of wind. They only had a twenty-four-foot boaty and she foundered and they were all lost.
"That was in '73, and I was born in y6j. The way I remembery my father left home with those boys that was drownded, and when he got to Traverse City and was ready to come backy old Captain Roddy, who had a little sailing vessel there y coaxed him to stay over and come home with him next day when it would be comfortable. He knew it wasn't jit for them to go out in that open boaty that small boaty understand? It was blowin* a gale of windy it wasy blowiny the tops right off the seas.
"My father was goiny right down in the boaty and Roddy said} * Dominic ky you aren't crazyy are youy to go in that boat today?' 'Well? he saidy 'Pll tell you: my wife is sicky and I want to get home.3 'Well/ he saidy 'it's better
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