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Album: Miscellaneous (2008)
Artists: Lloyd

  1. Anthem For Doomed Youth
  2. Basket Of Eggs
  3. Bitter Withy
  4. Blood Red Roses
  5. Bring Em Down
  6. Coal Owner And Pitmans Wife
  7. Corpus Christi Carol
  8. Dumiama Dingiama Dumiama Day
  9. Haul Away For Rosie
  10. Haul On The Bowline
  11. Heave Away Me Johnnies
  12. Heres To The Grog
  13. Husband With No Courage In Him
  14. Mccassery
  15. New South Wales
  16. Nine Times A Night
  17. Oh Shepherd Oh Shepherd Or The Sheep Are In The Wi
  18. One Night As I Lay On My Bed
  19. Oxford City Jealous Lover
  20. Prince Heathen
  21. Rosin The Beau
  22. Rounding The Horn
  23. Santy Anna
  24. The Black Ball Line
  25. The Blackleg Miners
  26. The Bold Black And Tan
  27. The Coast Of Peru
  28. The Liverpool Judies
  29. The Mermaid
  30. The Molecatcher
  31. The Road To Gundagai
  32. The Seven Joys Of Mary
  33. The Sheep Stealer
  34. The Ship In Distress
  35. The Troopers Horse
  36. The Two Magicians
  37. The Wanton Seed


Lloyd
Miscellaneous
The Coast Of Peru
The Coast of Peru

Come all ye young fellows that's bound after sperm
Come all ye young fellows that's rounded the Horn
Our captain has told us, and we hope it will come true
That there's plenty of sperm whales on the coast of Peru.

We have weathered the Horn, and are now on Peru,
We are all of one mind and endeavor to do,
Our boats are all rigged and our masthead all manned,
Our riggin' rove right and our signals all planned.

The first whale we saw, it was late in the day
The captain come up and these words he did say:
"Get into your hammocks and quiet there be
We'll see him in the morning close under our lee."

Next morning at daybreak about five o'clock,
The man at the masthead cried "Yonder she spouts!
Where away does she lay?" and the answer from aloft
"Two points on our lee bow and about three miles off."

Then it's call up all hands, and be of good cheer;
Put your tubs in your boats, boys, have your bow lines all clear.
Sway up your boats now, jump in you boat's crew
Lower away now lower away, my brave fellows, do.

Our waist boat got down and of course got the start,
Lay on, captain Bunker, I'm hell for to dart.
Now bend to your oars, boys, and make your boat fly
But one thing we dread of, be clear of his eye.

Now the chief mate he struck him, and the whale he went down
And the captain pulled up and he tried to bend on,
But the whale began to vomit and blood for to spout,
And in less than ten minutes we had him fin out.

We towed him alongside,and with many a shout
We soon cut him in, and began to try out.
Now our whale she is tried and likeways stowed down
She is better to us boys than five hundred pounds.

Here's a health to all whalemen, boys, drink it down, do
Likewise to the Bengal and our whaleship's crew.
All you that want money, I would have you to go
On the coast of Peru where the sperm whales do blow.


From Gale Huntington's book- Songs the Whalemen Sang. Collected
from logbook of Ship Bengal, journal of Ira Poland, 1832.
Recorded by A. L. Lloyd- Haul on the Bowline (sl. different,
different tune), Warner and Davis (?)
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