Whalers of the Deep, Deep Sea, The

DESCRIPTION: "The landsman loves his downy bed, Ne'er tossed upon the heaving billow" while "The whalers of the deep, deep, Danger and toil and death we brave." The live hard lives, they hunt the whale; they would not trade it for a less thrilling life
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1982 (Tod-WhalingInSouthernWaters)
KEYWORDS: whale sailor hardtimes
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REFERENCES (1 citation):
Tod-WhalingInSouthernWaters, p. 125, "The Whalers of the Deep, Deep Sea" (1 text)
NOTES [50 words]: The songs in Tod-WhalingInSouthernWaters; often it is possible to identify his source, but I do not know where he found this one. I doubt it is traditional; it looks like one of those things he could have found in a whaling journal. There is nothing that I can see to connect it to New Zealand. - RBW
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File: Tod125A

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