Greenland, Greenland, is a bonny, bonny place,

Whare there’s neither grief nor flowr,

Whare there’s neither grief nor tier to be seen,

But hills and frost and snow.

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Up starts the kemp o the ship,

Wi a psalm-book in his hand:

‘Swoom away, swoom away, my merry old boys,

For you’ll never see dry land.’

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