The Balaena
sł. trad.
The noble fleet of whalers went sailing from Dundee.
There's not another whaler that sails out of Dundee. Can beat the old "Balaena", she needs no trial run, And we challenged all, both great and small, from Dundee to St. John. The gale took off her quarter-boat and a couple of men, you see. It battered at her bulwarks, her stanchions and her rails, And left the old "Balaena", boys, a-frothing in the gale.
And Captain Guy with "Erin Boy" was ploughing through the stream, And the noble "Terra Nova", her boilers nearly burst, And still at the old whaling grounds, "Balaena" got there first.
Our flying jib boom points for home towards our native soil, And when that we have landed, boys, where the rum is very cheap, We'll drink success to the skipper's health for getting us over the deep.
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