All the Whales Are Wild and Ugly

DESCRIPTION: Singer would leave this whaling ground and head north, "where Bowheads be." All the whales here "are wild and ugly." Let's go north.
AUTHOR: George Edgar Mills (source: Frank-JollySailorsBold)
EARLIEST DATE: 1855 (source: Frank-JollySailorsBold)
KEYWORDS: request travel commerce nonballad parody whale boss sailor whaler
FOUND IN: US(NE)
REFERENCES (1 citation):
Frank-JollySailorsBold 158, "All the Whales Are Wild and Ugly" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #31395
NOTES [61 words]: "This delightful parody of Stephen Foster's 'Old Folks at Home' was written somewhere in the Pacific in 1855 by the prolific George Edgar Mills, third mate of the New Bedford whaleship Leonidas." (Frank-JollySailorsBold p. 338)
The chorus is "All these whales are wild and ugly / All those we see / O Captain will you go to that Ocean / Go where the Bow heads be."- BS
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File: FJSB158

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