{"id":9561,"date":"2023-01-01T07:04:02","date_gmt":"2023-01-01T11:04:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/?p=9561"},"modified":"2023-01-01T07:04:04","modified_gmt":"2023-01-01T11:04:04","slug":"the-balaena","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/?p=9561","title":{"rendered":"The Balaena"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/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_Balaena.mp3\"><\/p>\n<p><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden\/php\/music\/The_Balaena.mp3\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden\/php\/music\/The_Balaena.mp3\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden\/php\/music\/The_Balaena.mp3\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden\/php\/music\/The_Balaena.mp3\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden\/php\/music\/The_Balaena.mp3\">The Balaena<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"about\">\n<p>Great whaling song about a real ship The Balaena. It was a new ship built after the golden age of sail with an engine and it was very efficient.<\/p>\n<div class=\"lyrics-header\">Lyrics:<br \/>\nThe Balaena Lyrics<\/p>\n<p>[C] The noble fleet of whalers [F] went sailing from Dundee<br \/>\n[G7] Well-manned by British sailors [C] to work upon the sea<br \/>\nOn the Western Ocean passage [F] none with them can compare<br \/>\n[G7] But the smartest ship to make the trip is [C] Balaena, I declare<\/p>\n<p>[Chorus]<br \/>\n[C] Oh, the wind is on her quarter, [F] her engines working free<br \/>\n[G7] There&#8217;s not another whaler that [C] sails out of Dundee<br \/>\nCan beat the old Balaena, [F] she needs no trial run<br \/>\n[G7] And we challenged all, both great and small, [C] from Dundee to St John<\/p>\n<p>It happen\u0435d on a Tuesday, three days out of Dundee<br \/>\nThe gale took off h\u0435r quarter-boat and a couple of men, you see<br \/>\nIt battered at her bulwarks, and her stanchions and her rails<br \/>\nAnd left the old Balaena, boys, a-frothing in the gale<\/p>\n<p>Bold Jackman cut his canvas and he fairly raised his steam<br \/>\nAnd Captain Guy wit Erin Boy was ploughing through the stream<br \/>\nAnd the noble Terra Nova, her boilers nearly burst<br \/>\nAnd still at the old whaling grounds, Balaena got there first<\/p>\n<p>And now the season&#8217;s over and the ship half-full of oil<br \/>\nOur flying jib boom points for home towards our native soil<br \/>\nAnd when that we have landed, boys, where the rum is very cheap<br \/>\nWe&#8217;ll drink success to the skippers&#8217;s health for getting us over the deep<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How do I download this Mp3? Mp3: The Balaena Great whaling song about a real ship The Balaena. It was a new ship built after the golden age of sail with an engine and it was very efficient. Lyrics: The Balaena Lyrics [C] The noble fleet of whalers [F] went sailing from Dundee [G7] Well-manned &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/?p=9561\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Balaena&#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":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-seafaring"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9561","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=9561"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9561\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9569,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9561\/revisions\/9569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}