Chords for The Limeliters - Through Children's Eyes - The Whale

[N] A song now that was suggested to us by the children themselves.
It's one of their [Dbm] favorites.
It's one of our [Gb] favorites too because it [G] discusses the arduous conditions of the whaling industry
_ in the 19th century.
Heroic men about a hundred years [Eb] ago used to row [Gm] out right alongside these mammoth [G] mammals
_ and the man standing in the prow used to plunge a huge _ [D] harpoon right _
[G] _ in.
And that's smart. _ _
_ _ _ _ _ I've always identified with a whale of course _ _ [Eb] because I've been harpooned on so many occasions [G] myself.
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_ _ [F] Take that Moby [G]
Gottlieb. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[Bm] Since it is a whaling song [Gm] we do [Ebm] like to think that we whale on it a little.
[Eb] It _
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_ _ _ was in _ _ _ _ _ _ 1863, _ of June the _ [D] 13th day, that [G] our gallant [D] ship _ [C] arrived her [G] way,
for _ Greenland far [D] away, brave boys, for Greenland [G] far away. _ _
The lookout _ in the cross-tree stood with a spyglass in [D] his hand.
It's [G] a whale, it's a [D] whale, it's a whale, fishy [Dm] pride, and she [G] blows at every [D] span,
brave [G] boys, she blows at every span. _
Well the boats were lowered with the men on [D] board and the whale fish well in view.
_ _ [G] Very well [D] prepared were all our gallant shipmates, [G] right where the whale [D] fish flew, brave boys,
[G] right where the whale fish flew.
_ Well we struck that whale and the line played out, she made of blunder with [D] her tail.
[G] Well the boat [D] capsized and we lost five of the crew, and [G] we never caught that [D] whale,
brave boys, we [G]
never _ caught that whale. _ _ _
Lose that whale, [D] our [G] captain said, well it grieves my heart, oh [D] so,
_ _ [G] but oh to [D] lose those five gallant men, [G] it grieves me ten times [D] more, brave boys,
it [G] grieves me ten times more. _
Greenland is a dreadful [D] place, a [G] land that's never [D] green. _
[G] _ Where there's ice [D] and snow and the whale fish is slow, and the [G] daylight seldom [D] seen, brave boys,
[G] the daylight _ seldom _ seen.
Where there's ice _ [D] _ _ _ _ _ _
[G] _ _ _ _ and [D] snow and the whale fish is slow, and the daylight seldom seen, brave boys,
[G] the _ daylight _ _
_ [D] _ _ [G] seldom _ _ _
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