Key: D major
Verse 1
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The saddest
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sound I've ever heard
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Is the song of the hump- backed whale
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His moans and sighs and his eerie cries
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Sing a sad familiar tale
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For he sighs and blows as if he knows
His race is nearly run
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And that soon with all
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of his kind he'll fall
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Before the whaler's gun.
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Verse 2
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For every living thing on earth
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Nature made a space
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Each a living strand of a fragile plan
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That can never be replaced
And not from need,
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but from wanton greed
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With greed possessed he will not rest
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Till the last of the whales is dead.
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Verse 3
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In my mind's eye I can see them die
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As the whaler finds his mark
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Hear the muffled boom of the cruel harpoon
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As it blasts their lives apart
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I see the flood of their rich dark blood
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And that bloody green
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will not wash clean
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Till the last of the whales is
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dead.
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Verse 4
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The saddest sound I've ever heard
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A
Is the song of the hump- backed whale
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His moans and sighs and his eerie cries
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Sing a sad familiar tale
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For he sighs and blows as if he knows
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And that soon with all of his kind he'll fall
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Before the whaler's gun.
Outro 1
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