Bonus Content: Rolling Down to Old Cowry

A cover of Rolling Down to Old Maui, with appropriate Calcinean name substitutions

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Real World History
This is a song about the Kamchatka bowhead whale and Pacific sperm whale fishing in the 1850s. The Pacific whalers used to meet on Maui or in nearby Oahu twice a year. In March they fitted out for the summer season in the Arctic, when they fished the bowhead grounds off Kamchatka and the Gulf on Anadyr. In November, they returned to fit out for sperm-whaling in the tropical and subtropical waters of the Southern Seas.

Lyrics
It's a damn tough life full of toil and strife We whalermen undergo And we don't give a damn when the gale is done How hard the winds did blow Cause we're homeward bound from the Arctic ground With a good ship, taut and free And we won't give a damn when we drink our rum With the girls of Old Cowry

Rolling down to Old Cowry, me boys Rolling down to Old Cowry We're homeward bound from the Arctic ground Rolling down to Old Cowry

Once more we sail with a northerly gale Towards our island home Our mainmast sprung, our whaling done And we ain't got far to roam Six hellish months have passed away On the melancholic sea But now we're bound from the Arctic ground Rolling down to Old Cowry

Rolling down to Old Cowry, me boys Rolling down to Old Cowry We're homeward bound from the Arctic ground Rolling down to Old Cowry

Once more we sail with a northerly gale Through the ice and wind and rain Them coconut fronds, them tropical lands We soon shall see again Our stuns'l booms carried away What care we for that sound? A living gale is after us Thank God we're homeward bound

Rolling down to Old Cowry, me boys Rolling down to Old Cowry We're homeward bound from the Arctic ground Rolling down to Old Cowry