Farewell to Tarwathie lyrics

Farewell to Tarwathie, adieu Mormond Hill

And the dear land of Crimond, I bid you farewell

I'm bound out for Greenland and ready to sail

In hopes to find riches in hunting the whale

Farewell to my comrades, for a while we must part

And likewise the dear lass who first won my heart

The cold coast of Greenland my love will not chill

And the longer my absence, more loving she'll feel

Our ship is well rigged and she's ready to sail

The crew they are anxious to follow the whale

Where the icebergs do fall and the stormy winds blow

Where the land and the ocean is covered with snow

The cold coast of Greenland is barren and bare

No seed-time nor harvest is ever known there

And the birds here sing sweetly in mountain and dale

But there's no bird in Greenland to sing to the whale

There is no habitation for a man to live there

And the king of that country is the fierce Greenland bear

And there'll be no temptation to tarry long there

With our ship bumper full we will homeward repair

Farewell to Tarwathie, adieu Mormond Hill

And the dear land of Crimond, I bid you farewell

I'm bound out for Greenland and ready to sail

In hopes to find riches in hunting the whale