Artist: Ewan MacColl & A.L. Lloyd
Author: traditional
Label: Riverside
Year: 1957
On album Thar She Blows! About a whaling ship that got stuck in ice and crushed in Melville Bay along Greenland in 1830. The song was two years old, probably written by someone aboard. Bert Lloyd worked on a whaling ship bound for Antarctica in 1937-38 (The Southern Empress).
Covers:
Bob Dylan [Basement tape]
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