For it is true, unless I’ve erred,

There’s no good luck with a Finn on board.

When all at once around there came

Over the sea a greenish flame,

And the biggest whale I ever spied,

Rose up by Eric Jansen’s side:

For it is true, as you may’ve inferred,

There’s no good luck with a Finn on board.

And the Finn he got upon the whale,

And off in the flame we saw them sail;