When the whale get strike and the line runs out   And the whale makes a flounder with its tail   And the boat capsized and I lost my darlin' man   No more, no more Greenland for you, brave boys   No more, no more Greenland for you      Twas in eighteen hundred and fifty three   On June the thirteenth day   That our gallant ship her anchor weighed   And for Greenland sailed away, brave boys   For Greenland sailed away      The lookout on the cross tree stood   With a spyglass in his hand   There's a whale, there's a whale, there's a whale fish, he cried   And she blows at every span, brave boys   She blows at every span      Well we struck and whale and the line played out   But she gave a flounder with her tail   And the boat capsized and four men were drowned   And we never caught that whale   We never caught that whale      Oh, to lose that whale, my captain cried   It grieves my heart full sore   But to lose four of my gallant men   It grieves me ten times more, brave boys   It grieves me ten times more      Oh, Greenland is a dreadful place   It's a land that's never green   Where there's ice and snow and the whale fishes blow   And daylight's seldom seen, brave boys   And daylight's seldom seen      When the whale gets strike and the line runs out   And the whale makes a flounder with its tail   And the boat capsized and I lost my darlin' man   No more, no more Greenland for you, brave boys   No more, no more Greenland for you