Words & music original: Ken Stephens

Well, there's no more whales in the cold grey seas,
Ike hvaal, ike hvaal, ike hvaal!
Writhing to death in agony.
Ike hvaal, ike hvaal, ike hvaal!
No more soundings to the harpoon's thud,
There's no more blows of bright red blood.
No more blubber in the flensers tubs.
Ike hvaal, ike hvaal, ike hvaal!

In many countries and many lands,
Ike hvaal, ike hvaal, ike hvaal!
There's murder at the hands of man.
Ike hvaal, ike hvaal, ike hvaal!
From Greenland to the coast of Perth,
The largest mammals of the earth
Slaughtered before they could give birth.
Ike hvaal, ike hvaal, ike hvaal!

Sperm and right and giant blue
Ike hvaal, ike hvaal, ike hvaal!
Cachalot and humpback too
Ike hvaal, ike hvaal, ike hvaal!
For ambergrease and blubber and bone
They've been hunted from their ocean homes
And all their ancient breeding zones.
Ike hvaal, ike hvaal, ike hvaal!

Now there are no more giants in the early morn
Ike hvaal, ike hvaal, ike hvaal!
Cruising for krill off the craggy Horn
Ike hvaal, ike hvaal, ike hvaal!
Mammoths with their giant span
Who know no fear and never ran,
Their fight for life just never began.
Ike hvaal, ike hvaal, ike hvaal!

I hoped I'd never hear that cry,
Ike hvaal, ike hvaal, ike hvaal!
The last large whale was here to die.
Ike hvaal, ike hvaal, ike hvaal!
Gentle giants of the fin,
40 tons with larger kin,
In 200 years we've finished him.
Ike hvaal, ike hvaal, ike hvaal!