Lyr Req: Coast of Peru (Chris Foster version)

Subject: Coast of Peru Chris Foster version
From:
Date: 20 Jul 97 - 12:00 PM

This is in the database with somewhat different lyrics, or at least the one I found was. This verse does not seem to appear.

I can't make out the name of the South American, presumably Peruvian, city in Chris Foster's verse:

And we're bound into ----------- in our manly power
Where a man buys a whorehouse for a barrel of flour
We'll spend all our money on them Spanish girls ashore
And when it is all gone me boys we'll go whaling for more.

Thanks. For twenty years I've been trying to figure this out; even looked on an Atlas.

Subject: RE: Coast of Peru Chris Foster version
From: Barry Finn
Date: 21 Jul 97 - 09:47 PM

Tumbez- on the cost of Peru, also named in another sea song. I don't know Chris Foster's version but from what you have here it's the same as A L Lloyd's. It's early 19th c. & concerns the Pacific sperm & right whales. An interesting whaling song as it's reference to whale's as he & her, very uncommon, it's also unusual in its positive outlook on the life of a whaler.

Barry