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Brian McNeill - Greenland's Icy Waters lyrics
A wild and windy mornin’ on the first day o’ the year I was waitin’ for the ferry when a working man appeared He was jokin’ with his mates about the duty on a beer While the excise man was looking o’er his cargo When the 40-tonner’s doors they opened wide I saw the name they’d painted on the side And oh, Christian Salvesen Perhaps the fault is mine But there’s things that auld acquaintance Will always bring to mind As I looked intae the wagon I was sure that I would find The bloody memories of Greenland’s icy waters A hundred years ago your flags were flying in the shrouds From Grimby tae St. John you were the proudest of the proud But thank God you changed your trade for tell me where’s the glory now In the huntin’ of a species to extinction? For the silence o’ the waters tells the tale Of how the ocean’s lost the singin’ o’ the whale... And oh, Christian Salvesen Is the world’s opinion right To paint the bloodiest of colors In such simple black and white? Or would auld lang syne be better served by following the lives Of the men who saled for Greenland’s icy waters? They were lean and they were hard The were hungry for the prize They followed him in open boats Threw steel into his eye And looking back across the years their dreams are easy to despise Till you think about the lives they left behind them For what was there to dream of on the land? Just a life behind the plough, cap in hand For oh, Christian Salvesen They were young and in their prime And for every cup of kindness They drank ten of bitter wine Frozen death and bloody iron made them old before their time And claimed their lives for Greenland’s icy waters Leviathan for fortune Pantechnicon for trade One was ready for the slaughter One delivers ready-made And you know I’d be a liar when the consciences are weighed If I justified the bloodiest of huntin’ But through the singin’ o’ the humpback and the blue I hear the voices o’ the whalers ringing too So here’s to you, Christian Salvesen Here’s a health untae your name I’ll drink a glass to all the courage Drown my sorrows in the same Lest auld acquaintance e’er forget the glory and the shame And the memories of Greenland’s icy waters |
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