SEA SONGS - online songbook

70 Traditional Sea & sailing related songs with complete lyrics.

	WHEN FIRST I WENT A WHALING. When first I went a whaling, I left my home, a boy, And 'mongst the gleaming ice-fields, That home was still my joy ; For when, below the North-lights, The polar winds blew shrill, Dreams of my loving mother, Those dear dreams warmed me still. Amid the clashing icebergs My whaler rolls to-day, And keen the Arctic ice-blasts From the snow-floes round me play; But fond dreams of another My thoughts with summer fill; One, dearer than a mother, My heart is warming still.