The Coast Of Peru

<br>The Coast of Peru<br>Come all ye young fellows that`s bound after sperm<br>Come all ye young fellows that`s rounded the Horn<br>Our captain has told us, and we hope it will come true<br>That there`s plenty of sperm whales on the coast of Peru.<br>We have weathered the Horn, and are now on Peru,<br>We are all of one mind and endeavor to do,<br>Our boats are all rigged and our masthead all manned,<br>Our riggin` rove right and our signals all planned.<br>The first whale we saw, it was late in the day<br>The captain come up and these words he did say:<br>"Get into your hammocks and quiet there be<br>We`ll see him in the morning close under our lee."<br>Next morning at daybreak about five o`clock,<br>The man at the masthead cried "Yonder she spouts!<br>Where away does she lay?" and the answer from aloft<br>"Two points on our lee bow and about three miles off."<br>Then it`s call up all hands, and be of good cheer;<br>Put your tubs in your boats, boys, have your bow lines all clear.<br>Sway up your boats now, jump in you boat`s crew<br>Lower away now lower away, my brave fellows, do.<br>Our waist boat got down and of course got the start,<br>Lay on, captain Bunker, I`m hell for to dart.<br>Now bend to your oars, boys, and make your boat fly<br>But one thing we dread of, be clear of his eye.<br>Now the chief mate he struck him, and the whale he went down<br>And the captain pulled up and he tried to bend on,<br>But the whale began to vomit and blood for to spout,<br>And in less than ten minutes we had him fin out.<br>We towed him alongside,and with many a shout<br>We soon cut him in, and began to try out.<br>Now our whale she is tried and likeways stowed down<br>She is better to us boys than five hundred pounds.<br>Here`s a health to all whalemen, boys, drink it down, do<br>Likewise to the Bengal and our whaleship`s crew.<br>All you that want money, I would have you to go<br>On the coast of Peru where the sperm whales do blow.<br>From Gale Huntington`s book- Songs the Whalemen Sang. Collected<br> from logbook of Ship Bengal, journal of Ira Poland, 1832.<br>Recorded by A. L. Lloyd- Haul on the Bowline (sl. different,<br>different tune), Warner and Davis (?)<br>filename[ CSTPERU<br>play.exe CSTPERU<br>RG<br>===DOCUMENT BOUNDARY===