Blubber Boy

once there was a girl whose lover drowned nothing to console her could be found she took a chunk of blubber from a whale carved herself another, to perfect scale

ahh well the song now makes sense!

how did you figure that out? or where did you find it?

It was included in the lyrics:

once there was a girl whose lover drowned nothing to console her could be found she took a chunk of blubber from a whale she carved herself another to perfect scale

well dorothy no one from any other country had heard anything like it before so they just christianed it the australian style of yodelling

It's based on an Innuit folktale, about (as kama sutred said) a girl whose love had drowned in the sea. She carved his likeness out of blubber, and rubbed it against her genitals, which brought him to life, and she married him.

When it was hot in the hut they lived, he would get weary, and ask her to rub her genitals on him to revive him.

One day he went hunting seals, and the sun beat down harshly. As he paddled his kayak back, the heat made him sweat, melting him away, and when he reached the shore and stepped out of his kayak, he collapsed into a pile of blubber.

His girl went into mourning. And then once her mourning was complete, she took some blubber and carved it again into the likeness of her drowned love. Rubbing it against her genitals, her love was once again alive with her.

I found this in Angela Carter's fairy tale collection, and have heavily paraphrased it.