1: There’s a noble fleet of whalers a-sailin fae Dundee,
Well manned by British sailors to sail upon the sea;
On the Western ocean passage none wi them can compare,
But the smartest ship to make the trip - the Balaena I declare.

Chorus:
O the wind is on the quarter and the engine's working free,
There's no another whaler a-sailin fae Dundee,
Can beat the old Balaena, O ye needn't try her on,
For we'll challenge all both large and small fae Dundee to Saint John.

2: There’s a new built Terra Nova, a model with no doubt,
The Arctic and Aurora you’ve heard so much about;
And Jackman’s model mailboat, a terror o the sea,
Couldn’t beat the old Balaena on a passage from Dundee.

3: Now it happened on a Thursday four days we’d left Dundee,
And the wind blew on the quarter deck, took off the main you see;
And carried away our bulwarks, our stanchions and her rails,
And we left the old Balaena, boys, a-frothing in the gale.

4: Bold Jackman carried canvas and fairly raised his steam,
And Captain Guy in the Erin Boy goes ploughing through the stream,
And Mullen declares the Eskimo, could beat the bloomin lot,
But to beat the old Balaena, boys, you’d find it very hot.

5: And now that we have landed where the rum is very cheap,
We’ll drink to Captain Burnet for ploughin us o’er the deep;
And a health to all our sweethearts and to our wives so dear,
Not another ship could make the trip but the Balaena I declare.

Chorus:
O the wind is on the quarter and the engine's working free,
There's no another whaler a-sailin fae Dundee,
Can beat the old Balaena, O ye needn't try her on,
For we'll challenge all both large and small fae Dundee to Saint John.