Here's a great new sea song from the pen of Colin Wilkie that I just learned. There is a previous thread asking for the lyrics for the song that was posted last year but as far as I could tell the lyrics were never posted. This version is from the English group, Th'Antique Roadshow. They sing the chorus as a first verse and then repeat it as a chorus as well. I don't know if Colin Wilkie originally wrote it that way but, in any case, it's a wonderfull song that should be spread around.


ICY ACRES
By Colin Wilkie
Th'Antique Roadshow CD, Collection


Fare ye well, ye icy acres
Fare ye well, ye whaling grounds
Fare ye well, ye banks of Greenland
Weary whalers homeward bound

Homeward breezes round us blossom
Where the oak and the apple grows
God forgot the green in Greenland
He made the flowers of ice and snow

Chorus:
Fare ye well, ye icy acres
Fare ye well, ye whaling grounds
Fare ye well, ye banks of Greenland
Weary whalers homeward bound

Home where grasses lace the willow
Where the river's running free
And the waters sweetly flowing
Turns towards the open sea

Six long months we've been a-hunting
Through a hell of frozen flame
Now our hearts like sails are billowing
As we turn for home again

Radriano
^^