Key: G major
Intro 1
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Verse 1
Advertised in Boston,
New York and Buffalo
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500 brave Americans are
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wailing for to come
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Singing blow your winch in the morning,
I hope
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All the way you're running gear
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and blow, boys blow
They send you to New Bedford,
a famous wailing port
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And give you to some land sharks
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to put and fit you out
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blow your winch
I hope
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All the way you're running gear
a -runnin' in and out
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And how you'll catch five hundred sperm
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before you're six months out
in the mornin',
throw your wings high -ho
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All the way you're runnin' gear
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and blow, boys, blow
And now we're out to sea, me boys,
the wind comes on to blow
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One half the deck is sick about,
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the other half in love
Blow your wings, fly home
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All the way, you're running gear
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of low, boys, low
The skippers on the quarter deck
are squinting at the sail
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When all at once the lookout sights
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a mighty school of whales
Blow your wings, fly home
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All the way, you're running gear
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of low, boys, low
Then lower down the boats, me boys,
and after him we'll travel
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And if you get too near his fluke,
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he'll kick you to the devil
blow your winds, hope
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All the way you're running,
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hear him blow, boys, blow
And now that he's out,
me boys will tow him alongside
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Hand over with your glove or hooks
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and rub him out his hide
blow your winds, I hope
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All the while you're running
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dear and low, my love.
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