A ballad of a sailor doomed to forever go to sea in the worst job in the world for a sailor. Whaling was hard dirty and smelly. You only became a sailer on board a whaling ship if you were scraping the bottom of the barrel.
This song is from the album “steady as she goes” by Louis Killen, Jeff Warner,
Gerret Warner & Fud Benson
How sad and evocative. Nice find.