The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #32105   Message #421358
Posted By: Clinton Hammond
20-Mar-01 - 04:25 AM
Thread Name: Help! Repertoire suggestions?
Subject: Repertoire suggestion
The band Tamarack has nearly always been a 3 piece and every now and again you'll find a really cool a capella song on one of their CD's...

Frobisher Bay is one that first leaps to mind... A lovely little song about freezing to death on a whaling ship...

Frobisher Bay

Cold is the arctic sea
Far are your arms from me
Long will this winter be
Frozen in Frobisher Bay
Frozen in Frobisher Bay

"One more whale," our captain cried
"One more whale and well beat the ice."
But the winter star was in the sky
The sea's were rough the winds were high

Cold is the arctic sea
Far are your arms from me
Long will this winter be
Frozen in Frobisher Bay
Frozen in Frobisher Bay

Deep were the crashing waves
That tore our whalers mast away
Dark are these sunless days
Waiting for the ice to break

Cold is the arctic sea
Far are your arms from me
Long will this winter be
Frozen in Frobisher Bay
Frozen in Frobisher Bay

Strange is a whaler's fate
To be saved from the raging waves
Only to waste away
Frozen in this lonely grave

Cold is the arctic sea
Far are your arms from me
Long will this winter be
Frozen in Frobisher Bay
Frozen in Frobisher Bay