Greenland Whale Fisheries is the featured song in this episode of Folk Files. While delving into the origins of the song, we will explore other ballads about Greenland and dip our toes into the extensive history of whaling. Well row’d, jolly trouts! 

Host: Olivia Harding

Special thanks to: Pegmouth, ARRR!!!, and Aaron J. Morton

Musical excerpts:

ARTIST: ARRR!!!

WORK: Greenland Whale Fisheries

SOURCE: Plunderstruck (2010)

ARTIST: Peter, Paul, and Mary

WORK: Greenland Whale Fisheries

SOURCE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKsJrFy4Q_E

ARTIST: The Watersons

WORK: The Greenland Whale Fishery

SOURCE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PzMQYfRexUU

ARTIST: A.L. Lloyd

WORK: The Greenland Whale Fishery

SOURCE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vEOzI4IEkF0

ARTIST: David Pryor (Recorded by Alan Lomax and Mary Elizabeth Barnicle)

WORK: When the Whale Get Strike

SOURCE: https://music.apple.com/us/album/the-alan-lomax-collection-deep-river-of-song-bahamas-1935/2675148

ARTIST: Stan Rogers

WORK: Northwest Passage

SOURCE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVY8LoM47xI

ARTIST: Clanna Morna

WORK: Bonnie Ship the Diamond

SOURCE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i51KjpPvRKU

ARTIST: Judy Collins

WORK: Farewell to Tarwathie

SOURCE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qV29xK2xyZ4

ARTIST: Whales! (recorded by the Oceania Project) 

WORK: Whale Song

SOURCE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WabT1L-nN-E