John Spillane - Orca Orca Killer Whale lyrics

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Well I woke up this morning

And you would not believe what I saw

Three whales outside my window

Swimming in the river Lee

Orca Orca Killer Whale

You never saw such excitement

People came from far and near to see the whales

They lined up on the banks of the river

Nobody had ever heard of such a thing before

Orca Orca Killer Whale

I met an old woman in the super market

She said John you have to write a song about the whales

Who else is going to do it?

I went ORCA ORCA Killer Whale

I met a busker on Paul Street

He said they've come with a message to the human race

We've got to clean up the seas

I said I thought they came up after the salmon and the mullet

Orca Orca Killer Whale

Well they swam up to the city hall

They were singing to the city fathers

In a language nobody could understand

They were singing Orca Orca Killer Whale

There was lads coming out of Charlies

At one O' clock in the morning

They were out of their heads on E's

They thought they were after taking one too many

When they saw the three whales on Union Quay

Orca Orca Killer Whale

Well they swam right up the the south channel

Where there wasn't that much water

People were getting worried

They came up as far as the School of Music

They came to hear the human children playing the violin

Orca Orca Killer Whale

The place was full of stories

All the talk was of the whales

The salmon were jumping into the nets

Down by Blackrock Castle

To get away from the mammals

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A fella saw a duck swimming

On the pleasant waters of the Lee

Next thing a mighty jaw rises from the depths

Swallows the duck

I didn't believe that one

Till I saw on the television

What they do with the penguins

Down by the south pole

Orca Orca Killer Whale

Old fellas were saying

When I was a young fella

You could walk across the river Lee

On the backs of the mullet

That's how plentiful they were

I heard that three or four times

Orca Orca Killer Whale

The crowd from the university

Seemed fairly on the ball

They said there was one mother

One young son and an older male

Maybe an older son

They were expert at catching fish

Orca Orca Killer Whale

Well they hung around for about a week

Certainly they got plenty of fish

Plenty salmon and mullet

The Irish won't eat the mullet

We think we're too good

They say they eat the shit off the bottom

I'd say they're grand

The French love them

Also the Orca Orca Killer Whale

They went back out the harbour

Then the word came through

Mama Orca had passed away

It turns out she was old

She came up the River to die

With her two sons around her

And to have one last lash off the mullet

And to hear the children play the violin

She had nothing to lose

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The two lads headed off to the ocean

Out past Roche's Point

There was a pod outside of thirty whales

Waiting for the boys

Sorry to hear about your mother

Pod that was the word for a load of whales

You had to have the word, pod

Orca Orca Killer Whale

That was the summer of the whales

Now they're just a vague memory

The strange people of Cork

We have the memory of a goldfish

I met an old woman in the super market

She said John you have to write a song about the whales

Only for her there'd be no song

I went ORCA ORCA KILLER WHALE

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