"Greenland Whale Fisheries" is a traditional sea song. In most of the versions collected from oral sources, the song opens up giving a date for the events that it describes (usually between 1823 and 1853). However, the song is actually older than this and a form of it was published as a ballad before 1725. It has been given a Roud number of 347. Folk singer Paul Kaplan recorded a song with the same tune under the title "Call Me the Whale." Following a similar chronology, it tells the story from the whale's perspective. Covered by Ryan's Fancy on their 1971 album Dark Island.