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The oceans of the world were the home of big blue
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He was the greatest monster that the world ever knew
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And the place that he loved best was the waters to the west
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Around the blue Pacific he did roam
[Verse 2]
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Big Blue moved alone for a mighty blue was he
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And the battles of the whales was an awesome sight to see
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And he took them one by one and he drove them all away
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In the mating of the day he was the king
[Verse 3]
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Big blue had fifty wives and he sired forty sons
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Though most of them fell victim to the cruel harpoon guns
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Ah but he was too much wise to get caught by the gunners' eyes
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And so he lived at sea a hundred years
[Verse 4]
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His mouth was as large as a tunnel so they say
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His hide was thick as leather and his eyes quick and small
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And his back was all scarred by the times he got away
C G Am
And he knew the smell of whalers did Big Blue
[Verse 5]
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Big Blue passed away to his natural decay
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Beside the Arctic Circle as he travelled up that way
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And there never was a man who was born with a gunner's hand
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Who ever took a pan to Big Blue
[Verse 6]
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Now the gray whale has run and the sperm is almost done
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The finbacks and the Greenland rights have all passed and gone
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They've been taken by the men for the money they could spend
C G Am
And the killing never ends, it just goes on
[Verse 7]
Am C G Am
The oceans of the earth were the home of big blue
C Cmaj7 Em7/A
He was the greatest monster that the world ever knew
Am C G Am
And the place that he loved best was the waters to the west
C G Am
Around the blue Pacific he did roam
