00:06He barred the door with my brothers
00:09O'er the night he came back home
00:13They'd found that door among the rocks
00:15They'd found no trace of him
00:19For seven years I slid it back
00:22To let the neighbors in
00:25That night a voice call lift the latch
00:28It sticks when there's been rain
00:31My hands had got the door halfway
00:34Before he gave his name
00:37His beard was grey, his ears stuck out
00:40The way they'd always done
00:43I put both hands against his cheeks
00:46My brother, there was one
00:48You owe me seven winters
00:51Pay me back in tail
00:53Start with how you lost those boots
00:56Then tell me you're the whale
00:58Pull your bench a little closer
01:01Let me see you when you grin
01:03You owe me seven winters, brother
01:07Where shall we begin?
01:13In Dublin there's a cobbler's boy
01:16Who wears my boots today
01:18I lost him racing up the K
01:21He beat me fair, I'd say
01:23Offered me something
01:25Bumped our hull and rolled a great black eye
01:28Six grown men sat still as stones
01:30The whale went swimming by
01:33My girl said, were you frightened?
01:35Then he bent down in his chair
01:38I'd tell you I was brave
01:40My last but five more men were there
01:42You owe me seven winters
01:45Pay me back in tail
01:47Start with how you lost those boots
01:50Then tell me you're the whale
01:52Pull your bench a little closer
01:55Let me see you when you grin
01:57You owe me seven winters, brother
02:01Where shall we begin?
02:05Then with his thumb he traced the crap
02:07Along his wooden cup
02:09The night our ship went on the rocks
02:12A fishing crew pulled me up
02:15They sold me south
02:16I worked an oar and watched the shoreline pass
02:20One foggy dawn we slipped our ropes
02:22I felt my feet on grass
02:24I walked till someone spoke like us
02:27I turned to hear him twice
02:29I worked my passage, gutting fish
02:32I'd gladly pay that price
02:38By then my girl was fast asleep
02:41Her hand inside his own
02:43He asked me, what's this wee one called?
02:46How much has she grown?
02:48She's six, I said she hates the dark
02:51She cheats at throwing stones
02:54He laughed, now tell me all the rest
02:58I've missed some tales of my own
03:00We owe you seven winters
03:04We'll pay you back in tales
03:06I'll tell you how she learned to walk
03:09Tomorrow, there's the whale
03:11Pull your bench a little closer
03:14Let me see you when you grin
03:16We owe you seven winters, brother
03:20Where shall we begin?
03:24He's been home three winters now
03:27My girl still pulls his sleeve
03:33That whale gets longer every year
03:36You ought to hear him tell me
03:51Why he scalloped somebody
03:54That whale gives me
03:54You ought to have to use your own