Greenland Whale Fisheries chords by The Pogues

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Verse 1
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In eighteen
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hundred and forty- six
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And of March the eighteenth day,
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We hoisted our colors to
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the top of the mast
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And for Greenland sailed away,
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brave boys,
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And for Greenland sailed
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away.

Verse 2
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The lookout in the crosstrees stood
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With spyglass in his hand;
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There's a whale, there's a whale,
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And a whalefish he cried
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And she blows at every span, brave boys
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She blows at every span.

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Verse 3

The captain stood on the quarter deck,

The ice was in his eye;

Overhaul, overhaul! Let your gibsheets fall,

And you'll put your boats to sea,

brave boys

And you'll put your boats to sea.

Verse 4
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Our harpoon struck and
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the line played out,
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With a single flourish of his tail,
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He capsized the boat
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and we lost five men,
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And we did not catch the whale,
brave boys,
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And we did not catch the whale.

Interlude 1

Verse 5
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The losing of those five jolly men,
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It grieved the captain sore,
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But the losing of that fine whalefish
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Now it grieved him ten times more,
brave boys
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Now it grieved him ten
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times more.

Verse 6
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Oh Greenland is a barren land
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A land that bares no green
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Where there's ice and snow,
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and the whalefishes blow
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And the daylight's seldom seen,
brave boys
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And the daylight's seldom