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There's a noble fleet of whalers
a-sailing from Dundee,
Manned by British sailors to
take them o'er the sea;
On a western ocean passage,
we started on the trip,
And we flew along just like a song
in our gallant whaling ship.
For the wind was on her quarter
and the engines working free.
There's not another whaler
that sailed the Arctic Sea,
Can beat the Old Polina,
you need not try, my sons,
For we challenged all both great and small
from Dundee to St John's.
'twas the second Sunday morning,
just after leaving port,
We met a heavy Southwest gale
that washed away our boat;
It washed away our quarter-deck,
our stanchions just as well,
And so we set the whole she-bang
a-floating in the gale.
Art Jackson set his canvas,
Fairweather got up steam,
And Captain Guy, the daring boy,
came plunging through the stream;
And Mullins in the Husky
tried to beat the blooming lot,
But to beat the Old Polina
was something he could not.
For the wind was on her quarter
and the engines working free.
There's not another whaler
that sailed the Arctic Sea,
Can beat the Old Polina,
you need not try, my sons,
For we challenged all both great and small
from Dundee to St John's.
There's the noble Terra Nova,
a model without doubt.
The Arctic and Aurora
they talk so much about;
Art Jackman's model mail boat -
the terror of the sea,
Tried to beat the Old Polina
on a passage from Dundee.
For the wind was on her quarter
and the engines working free.
There's not another whaler
that sailed the Arctic Sea,
Can beat the Old Polina,
you need not try, my sons,
For we challenged all both great and small
from Dundee to St John's.
And now we're back in old St John's
where rum is very cheap,
So we'll drink a health to Captain Guy
who brought us o'er the deep;
A health to all our sweethearts
and to our wives so fair,
Not another ship could make the trip
but the Polina I declare.
For the wind was on her quarter
and the engines working free.
There's not another whaler
that sailed the Arctic Sea,
Can beat the Old Polina,
you need not try, my sons,
For we challenged all both great and small
from Dundee to St John's.
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