Pique la Baleine

DESCRIPTION: French. Rowing shanty. "Pour retrou ver ma douce amie." The whaler goes out to strike the whale, "for to find my love again." He sails many seas to find the whale, and will find the whale, his love, even if she is drowned
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1977 (Hugill-SongsOfTheSea)
KEYWORDS: whaler shanty foreignlanguage love
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REFERENCES (1 citation):
Hugill-SongsOfTheSea, p. 128, "Pique la Baleine" (2 texts, French & English, 1 tune)
File: HSoSe128

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