Great Big Sea – Old Polina (Guitar)

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 There's a noble fleet O' whalers,a-sailin' from Dundee,

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 Manned by British sailors to take them o'er the Sea.

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 On A Western ocean passage we started on the trip,

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 we flew along just like a song on our gallant whaling ship.

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 twas the second sunday morning,just after leavin' port,

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 we met a heavy sou'west gale that washed away our boat.

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 it washed away our quarterdeck,our stanchions just as well,

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 an so we sent the whole shebang a-floatin' in the gale. 

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 For the wind was on her quarter,the engine's working free,

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 there's not another whaler that sails the Arctic Sea,

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 cant beat the Old Polina,ye need not try me sons,

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 we challenged all both great and small from Dundee to St Johns!

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 Art Jackman set his Canvas,Fairweather got up steam,

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 an' Captain Guy, the daring b'y, came plunging through the stream. 

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 and Mullins in "The Husky" tried to beat the bloody lot,

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 but to beat the Old Polina, boys,was something he could not.

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 There's the noble "Terra Nova",a model without doubt,

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 the "Arctic" and "Aurora" they talk so much about.

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 Art Jackman's model mailboat,the terror of the sea,

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 tried to beat the Old Polina,on a passage from Dundee.

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 Now we're back in old St John's where rum is very cheap,

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 we'll drink a health to Captain Guy who brought us o'er the deep.

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 A health to all our sweethearts,and to our wives so fair,

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 not another ship could make the trip, "the Polina" I declare!