Ode To Big Blue Lyrics - Gordon Lightfoot

The oceans of the world were the home of Big Blue 

He was the greatest monster that the world ever knew 

And the place that he loved best was the waters to the west 

Around the blue Pacific he did roam 

Big Blue moved alone for a mighty blue was he 

And the battles of the whales was an awesome sight to see 

And he took them one by one and he drove them all away 

In the mating of the day he was the king 

Big Blue had fifty wives and he sired forty sons 

Though most of them feel victim to the cruel harpoon guns 

Ah, but he was too much wise to get caught by the gunner's eyes 

And so he lived at sea a hundred years 

His mouth was as large as a tunnel, so they say 

His hide was thick as leather and his eyes quick and small 

And his back was all scarred by the times he got away 

And he knew the smell of whalers, did Big Blue 

Big Blue passed away to his natural decay 

Beside the Arctic Circle as he traveled up that way 

And there never was a man who was born with a gunner's hand 

Who ever took a pan to Big Blue 

Now the gray whale has run and the sperm is almost done 

The fin backs and the Greenland rights have all passed and gone 

They've been taken by the men for the money they could spend 

And the killing never ends, it just goes on 

The oceans of the earth were the home of Big Blue 

He was the greatest monster that the world ever knew 

And the place that he loved best was the waters to the west 

Around the blue Pacific he did roam