Tablature the coast of peru - TRADITIONNEL

          



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  Date: Sun, 30 Nov 1997 20:40:44 +0000

  From: Chris Hutson <HadesLimo@worldnet.att.net>

  Subject: CRD: The Coast of Peru by Traditional

  

          Here's an old sea shanty which I learned off of a tape entitled

  "Steady as she Goes." It's a song about harpooning a whale, but I don't

  condone that sort of thing, so please don't flame me. Enjoy.

  

  

  THE COAST OF PERU  (traditional)

  

           Dm 			F

  Come all ye young fellows that's bound after sperm

  				Dm             C

  Come all ye young fellows that's rounded the horn

         F					    C

  Our captain has told us and I hope it'll prove true

  	F			      C	      F

  There's plenty of sperm whale on the coast of Peru

  

  We have weathered the horn and are now on Peru

  We are all of one mind and endeavour to do

  Our boats are all rigged and our mastheads all manned

  Our rigging roped tight and our signals all planned

  

  The next morning at daybreak at about five o' clock

  the man at the masthead cried, "yonder she spouts!"

  "Where away does she lay?" and the answer from aloft:

  "Two points on our lead bow and about three miles off."

  

  Now it's call up all hands and it's be of good cheer

  Put your tubs in your boats, boys, keep your bow lines all clear

  Now bend to your oars and make your boat fly

  But one thing we dread of, keep clear of his eye

  

  Now the first mate he struck him and the whale he did sound

  And the captain pulled up and he tried to bend on

  But the whale began to vomit and the blood for to spout

  And in less than ten minutes, we had him thin out

  

  Well, we towed him alongside and with many a shout

  We soon cut him in and began to try out

  Now the whale is all tried, and likewise stowed down

  He's better to us, boys, than five hundred pounds

  

  Here's a health to all whalermen, boys, drink it down do

  Likewise to the Bengal and all our ship's crew

  All you who want money, I would have you for to go

  On the coast of Peru where the whale-fish do blow

  Chris Hutson 

  hadeslimo@worldnet.att.net

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 The coast of peru, de Traditionnel 

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