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