Go to Sea No More  
KDM Lyrics arrangement …  
And as I walked the streets about, I met with Rapper Brown  
I asked for him to take me on - he looked at me and frowned  
He said, “Last time you was paid off - with me you could no score.  
I'll take a chance and I’ll take your advance, and you’ll go to sea once more.”  
Once more, boys, once more, and go to sea once more  
“I'll take a chance and I’ll take your advance, and you’ll go to sea once more.”  
Men gathered outside of the Custom House where merchant sailors would  
contract for work. Made public photograph.  
I shipped aboard on a whaling ship ‘twas bound for arctic seas  
Where cold winds blow through the frost and snow, Jamaica rum would freeze  
But worse to bear, I had no gear; me money spent on shore  
'twas then I wished that I was dead and go to sea no more  
No more, boys, no more, oh, go to sea no more  
'twas then I wished that I was dead and go to sea no more  
The “whaling industry” was a hard, brutal  
life, but in the mid-1800s through the early  
1900s, it was one of the few industries  
available for Scots and Irish due to the  
potato famine in the United Kingdom and in  
western Europe, and the need for clean  
lamp oil.  
Made public painting. Killing a sperm whale.  
These types of whales were called “Right Whales.  
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