Whaling Song

There's no more whales in the cold grey sea
Iker vile, Iker vile, Iker vile
Writhing to death in agony
Iker vile, Iker vile, Iker vile
No more sounding to harpoons flood
No more glows of bright red blood
There's no more blubber in the cleansing tub
Iker vile, Iker vile, Iker vile

In Norway, Russia, and Japan
Iker vile, Iker vile, Iker vile
There's murder at the hands of man
Iker vile, Iker vile, Iker vile
From Greenland to the coast of Perth
The largest mammal on the earth
is slaughtered before it can give birth
Iker vile, Iker vile, Iker vile

There's no more whales in the early morn
Iker vile, Iker vile, Iker vile
Cruising for crill on the craggy horn
Iker vile, Iker vile, Iker vile
Mammoths with their giant sperm
Knew no fear, so never run
Their fight for life just never begun

Iker vile, Iker vile, Iker vile
The white, the finn, the giant blue
Iker vile, Iker vile, Iker vile
The humpback and the cachalot too
Iker vile, Iker vile, Iker vile
For ambergris and blubber and bones
Where hunted from their ocean homes
And all their fertile breeding zones
Iker vile, Iker vile, Iker vile

I hoped I'd never hear this cry
Iker vile, Iker vile, Iker vile
The last great whale is here to die
Iker vile, Iker vile, Iker vile
Gentle giant of the finn
Forty tons with larger kin
In two hundred years man's finished him
Iker vile, Iker vile, Iker vile