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dilly daly of Adelaide Origins: Farewell to Tarwathie--in public domain?? (95* d) RE: Farewell to Tarwathie-----in public domain?? 29 Aug 09


Does anyone have the chords for this great song as sung by the Nightingales "tramps and hawkers" album. please.Terrific tune.

Farewell to Tarwathie

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 thee farewell
We're bound out for Greenland and ready to sail
In hopes to find riches in hunting the whale


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