Gordon Lightfoot – Ode To Big Blue (Guitar)

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The oceans of the world were the home of big blue

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He was the greatest monster that the world ever knew

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And the place that he loved best was the waters to the west

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Around the blue Pacific he did roam

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Big Blue moved alone for a mighty blue was he

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And the battles of the whales was an awesome sight to see

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And he took them one by one and he drove them all away

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In the mating of the day he was the king

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Big blue had fifty wives and he sired forty sons

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Though most of them fell victim to the cruel harpoon guns

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Ah but he was too much wise to get caught by the gunners' eyes

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And so he lived at sea a hundred years

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His mouth was as large as a tunnel so they say

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His hide was thick as leather and his eyes quick and small

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And his back was all scarred by the times he got away

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And he knew the smell of whalers did Big Blue

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Big Blue passed away to his natural decay

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Beside the Arctic Circle as he travelled up that way

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And there never was a man who was born with a gunner's hand

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Who ever took a pan to Big Blue

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Now the gray whale has run and the sperm is almost done

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The finbacks and the Greenland rights have all passed and gone

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They've been taken by the men for the money they could spend

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And the killing never ends, it just goes on

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The oceans of the earth were the home of big blue

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He was the greatest monster that the world ever knew

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And the place that he loved best was the waters to the west

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Around the blue Pacific he did roam