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Vocal. A saucy narrative tale of days gone by, in waltz time, inspired by listening to the English folk recordings of A.L.Lloyd. Those who went to sea with the whaling fleets were often not fully paid promised wages when they got home from months of hardship, or would soon fall victim to robbers and confidence tricksters.

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Two spry young tars came home from the sea
Each looking for a maid when they met with sisters three
The tars had pluck and courage and the grit for long endurance
They had tested out their mettle in the cruellest of God’s elements

Hey! Hi-ho! There she blows!

The captain warned his boys not to spend their shilling
On meaningless pleasures like girls who were not willing
But these three sisters had appetites of huge proportions
For food and drink and daring-do that the ordinary whore shuns

Hey! Hi-ho! There she blows!

The sisters kept them busy and the tars were not complaining
Till the money all was spent and no love was left remaining
The sailors’ purses emptied in less than a week
And on the day of rest they were too tired even to speak

Hey! Hi-ho! There she blows!

Returning to the quayside the tars slipped straight aboard
To head back out to Greenland by the time the ice had thawed
The wind was fair and true as they rais-ed up full sail
Each tar had sought a maiden but now he’d take a whale

Hey! Hi-ho! There she blows!

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from Modes, Timbres & Other Sonic Hues, released June 16, 2014
Written by Pete Jinks
Recorded at Crash by Andy Fernihough
Pete Jinks - acoustic guitar and vocals
Andy Fernihough - drums and percussion
Pete Muldoon - upright bass
Ash 'Doc Horror' Lerczak - electric guitar
Artwork public domain - Abraham Storck (1690) "Dutch whalers near Spitsbergen"

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Pete Jinks Runcorn, UK

Pete Jinks studied guitar and bass at London's ICMP. He previously led the exploratory outfit Errol Nomad and the Random Tandem. Currently releasing new material under his own name, still mixing the exploratory and the mainstream.

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