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Wild and Ugly (1856)
The whaleman who wrote these lyrics to the tune of Stephen Foster’s “Old Folks at Home” was frustrated with his captain, S.D. Oliver. Oliver had promised to hunt the relatively docile Bowhead whales in the Arctic, but instead sought the more profitable and dangerous sperm whales. From Huntington’s second collection of whaling songs, “The Gam.”

lyrics

All up and down the Arctic Ocean
There the Bowheads blow
There’s where my heart is yearning ever,
There’s where I want to go
All the whales that’s in this ocean
All are wild you see
Oh, Captain, won’t you go to that ocean
Go where the bowheads be

Chorus:
All these whales are wild and ugly
Everywhere we stray
Oh, Captain won’t you go to that ocean
Go where the bowheads play

All up and down these seas we’ve wandered
Since I have been with you
Oh, Captain, won’t you go to the north’ard
There you’ll find something new

Chorus

When shall we see the hills and valleys
of our own home shore
Oh, Captain, let us leave these waters
and not sail here any more.

Chorus

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from Alone on the Wide Wide Sea, released August 9, 2022

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Craig Edwards New London, Connecticut

I play American roots music, from Appalachian fiddle and banjo tunes to Zydeco accordion. For nearly four decades i worked as a staff musician at Mystic Seaport Museum, demonstrating the use of chanteys, or sailor work songs, aboard the museum's collection of historic ships. I've plumbed the depths of sailor music, from the African American origins of chanteys to world maritime traditions. ... more

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