Farewell to Tarwathie
Adieu Mormond Hill
And the dear land of Crimmond

I bid you farewell
I'm bound off for Greenland
And ready to sail

In hopes to find riches
In hunting the whale


Farewell to my comrades
For a while we must part
And likewise the dear lass

Who first won my heart
The cold coast of Greenland
My love will not chill

And the longer my absence
More loving she'll feel


Our ship is well rigged
And she's ready to sail
The crew they are anxious

To follow the whale
Where the icebergs do float
And the stormy winds blow

Where the land and the ocean
Is covered with snow


The cold coast of Greenland
Is barren and bare
No see time nor harvest

Is ever known there
And the birds here sing sweetly
In mountain and dale

But there's no bird in Greenland
To sing to the whale


There is no habitation
For a man to live there
And the king of that country

Is the fierce Greenland bear
And there'll be no temptation
To tarry long there

With our ship under full
We will homeward repair


Farewell to Tarwathie
Adieu Mormond Hill
And the dear land of Crimmond

I bid you farewell
I'm bound off for Greenland
And ready to sail

In hopes to find riches
In hunting the whale