{"id":7375,"date":"2011-08-01T08:55:33","date_gmt":"2011-08-01T12:55:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/?p=7375"},"modified":"2019-11-07T16:44:31","modified_gmt":"2019-11-07T20:44:31","slug":"the-coast-of-peru","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/?p=7375","title":{"rendered":"The Coast of Peru"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden\/php\/images\/The_Coast_of_Peru.jpg\" width=\"500\/\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"audio\">\n<div class=\"alignright caption\"> <a href=\"?page_id=6069\">How do I download this Mp3?<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"audio_link\"> Mp3: <a href=\"http:\/\/ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden\/php\/music\/The_Coast_of_Peru.mp3\">The Coast of Peru &#8211; Click To Play<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"about\">\nOne of my favorite folk albums is &#8220;Thar She Blows&#8221; with A. L. Lloyd and Ewan MacColl on vocals, Peggy Seeger on banjo\/guitar and John Cole on harmonica. I recorded this song in Lloyd&#8217;s vocal style, adding mandolin, banjo and guitar.<\/p>\n<p>Here are some notes from A. L. Lloyd:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The English whaling ship Emilia was the first to inaugurate the Pacific sperm whale fishery in 1788, rounding Cape Horn to fish in the waters of the South Sea islands and the coasts of Chile and Peru. By the 1840s, the days of the South Seamen were numbered, but they left behind a fine memorial in their songs, of which The Coast of Peru is perhaps the most impressive. Tumbez, mentioned in the last verse, is in the far north of Peru, on the Gulf of Guayaquil, near the equator. Its girls are remembered in several whaling songs.<\/p>\n<p>By no means all the old time whaling was done in northern waters. In the 1820s, for example, more than a hundred British ships, mostly out of Hull or London, where fishing in the sperm whale grounds round the Horn off the coast of Chile and Peru and taking the long, long run across the Pacific by way of Galapagos Island and the Marquesas, to Timor. The trip would last three years. The Coast of Peru is the most important ballad of the South-Seamen. Possibly it describes the chase of a southern right whale, not a sperm. Sperms were usually harpooned by running the boat close to the whale. Right whales, who tend to fight with their tail, were more often harpooned with the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153long dart\u00e2\u20ac\u009d from perhaps ten yards away. Mention of the mate in the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153main chains\u00e2\u20ac\u009d dates the song before the 1840s.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"lyrics-header\">Lyrics:<\/div>\n<div class=\"lyrics\">\n<p>[Dm] Come all you young [C] sailor-men who rounded [Dm] Cape Horn,<br \/>\nCome all you bold whalers who follow the sperm,<br \/>\nOur captain has told us and we hope he says true,<br \/>\n[Dm] There&#8217;s plenty of [C] sperm whale on the [Dm] coast of Peru.<\/p>\n<p>It was was early one morning just as the sun rose,<br \/>\nThe man on the for-mast sung out: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153There she blows!\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Where away?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d says the captain, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153and where does she lay?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Three points to the east, sir, not a mile away.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>Then it&#8217;s lower your boats me boys and after him travel<br \/>\nSteer clear of his flukes or he&#8217;ll flip you to the devil<br \/>\nAnd lay on them oars boys and let your boats  fly<br \/>\nBut one thing we dread of, keep clear of his eye!\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>Well the waist-boat got down, and we made a good start.<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Lay on said the harpooneer for I&#8217;m hell for a long dart.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<br \/>\nWell the harpoon it struck and the whale sped away<br \/>\nBut whatever he done, me boys, he gave us fair play.<\/p>\n<p>Well we got him turned over and laid alongside<br \/>\nAnd we over with our blubber hooks to rob him of his hide<br \/>\nWe commenced thrusting in boys and then trying out<br \/>\nAnd the mate in the main chains how loud he did shout<\/p>\n<p>Now we&#8217;re bound for old Tumbez in our manly power<br \/>\nWhere a man buys a pleasure house for a barrel of flour<br \/>\nWe&#8217;ll spend all our money on them pretty girls ashore<br \/>\nAnd when it&#8217;s all gone me lads go whaling for more<\/p>\n<p>Come all you young sailor-men who rounded Cape Horn,<br \/>\nCome all you bold whalers who follow the sperm,<br \/>\nOur captain has told us and we hope he says true,<br \/>\nThere&#8217;s plenty of sperm whale on the coast of Peru.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script src=\"http:\/\/digg.com\/tools\/diggthis.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How do I download this Mp3? Mp3: The Coast of Peru &#8211; Click To Play One of my favorite folk albums is &#8220;Thar She Blows&#8221; with A. L. Lloyd and Ewan MacColl on vocals, Peggy Seeger on banjo\/guitar and John Cole on harmonica. I recorded this song in Lloyd&#8217;s vocal style, adding mandolin, banjo and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/?p=7375\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Coast of Peru&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-irishbritish","category-seafaring"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7375"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7375\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8779,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7375\/revisions\/8779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}