mcdonald when my grandpa was a boy he went down to the general store saw a picture book of a whale shooting its spout and flashin its tail then he got a sailor s dream bout cruisin around on the salty sea joinin up with a fishin crew to go out and get him a whale or two tell me what kind of men are these who sail upon the salty seas up in the rigging in the afternoon swabbin the decks and sharpenin harpoons hooray and up she rises hooray and up she rises hooray and up she rises early in the morning there re lots of whales in the deep blue sea we kill them for the company we drag em longside and chop em in two and melt em down and sell em to you there hardly is a sailor alive who can keep the tears from his eyes as he remembers the good old days when there were no whales to save thank the russians and japanese for scouring the deep blue seas looking for ivory and perfume and plastic toys and pet food hooray and up she rises hooray and up she rises hooray and up she rises early in the morning shanghaied by the light of the moon put out from boston in the middle of june after six months out at sea it s nothin but death and misery set out on a three year cruise a union ship and a union crew and after six months you begin to see that whalin s not what it used to be a modern ship and a modern crew with sonar scopes and explodin harpoons a mechanical boat made outta steel a floating machine built to kill the whales hooray and up she rises hooray and up she rises hooray and up she rises early in the morning when my grandpa was a boy he went down to the general store saw a picture book of a whale shooting its spout and flashin its tail then he got a sailor s dream bout cruisin around on the salty sea joinin up with a fishin crew to go out and get him a whale or two tell me what kind of men are these who sail upon the salty seas up in the rigging in the afternoon swabbin the decks and sharpenin harpoons hooray and up she rises hooray and up she rises hooray and up she rises early in the morning