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[BLACKSMITH] If you catch a bird with a broken wing I will build it a pagoda to live in [CARPENTER] If your pockets are cluttered with paperclips and string I will make you a box for all the treasures that you've been given And I can make you a brand new leg, my captain [BLACKSMITH & CARPENTER] Make you a new harpoon So you can stand and fight in the light of the white [CARPENTER] But You can never be anything other than what you are [BLACKSMITH & CARPENTER] You can never be anything other than what you are You can never be anything other than what you are What you are What you are [STUBB] Oh! Jolly is the gale And a joker is the whale A' flourishin' his tail Such a funny, sporty, gamy, jesty, joky, hoky-poky lad Is the Ocean, oh! [FLASK] It's a round thing Made of gold Shiny doubloon My soul's been sold Money, money, money Fill my bank, fill my belly Bigger, bigger, bigger, bigger Kill, kill, kill [STUBB & FLASK] Money, money, money Fill my bank, fill my belly Bigger, bigger, bigger, bigger Kill, kill, kill Shall we lower, Mr. Starbuck? [STARBUCK] I've been looking for a gun and I found one I've been looking for a gun and I found one He would have shot me once Loaded, powder in the pan He would have killed me once Aye, he'd kill us all! He says we vowed his vow He says all of us are Ahabs now Great God forbid! Great God forbid! And so, what now? I've been looking for a gun and I found one I've been looking for a gun and I found one [DAGGOO & TASHTEGO] Behold, a miracle Under the waves, in the darkness A pod of whale mothers Nursing their young [ISHMAEL & QUEEQUEG] Red and white Red and white [STUBB] Shall we lower, Mr. Starbuck? [AHAB] Three years at sea My harpoon turns to rust My limp bone turns to dust My compass lies to me My quadrant hides the skies from me [FEDALLAH] He burns in himself [AHAB] Tickle them, prickle thy phantom flesh [PIP, spoken] Sir! Use Pip for your lost leg. Tread upon me, sir, so I might remain a part of ye [AHAB, spoken] Thou touchest my inmost center boy; thou art tied to me by my heart-strings. I feel prouder holding thy black hand than an emperor's! But there is that in thee, poor lad, which I feel too curing to my malady [FEDALLAH] I die first You die second You die by your own rope But before you die Two hearses sail by The first misunderstood The second one made of American wood [AHAB, spoken] Carpenter, blacksmith! A new leg! A new harpoon! [CARPENTER, spoken] Aye, Captain [BLACKSMITH, spoken] Aye, Captain [QUEEQUEG] The day becomes the night The night becomes the day And I have a fever [ISHMAEL, spoken] Queequeg, you're so pale [CREW] I have a fever [ISHMAEL] The color is gone from your face [CREW] The color is gone from your face [QUEEQUEG] Once I harpooned a whale mother Nursing a babe at her breast And the waters ran red and white with blood and milk [ISHMAEL] Hold on, friend [QUEEQUEG] The waters ran red and white with blood and milk [ISHMAEL] Don't die, I can't lose you [QUEEQUEG] Blood and milk [AHAB, spoken] Fedallah, show me your palms [FEDALLAH] We baptize this harpoon in blood Red and white for the blood From our palms Red and white [ BLACKSMITH & CARPENTER] We baptize this harpoon in blood Red and white for the blood From our palms Red and white [STARBUCK] So now what shall I do? Lock him up, tie him down? Oh, God, what can I do? Before he kills us all I stand alone and see All the men, they stand away from me God, no one sees God, no one sees Their eyes are glazed with lies of fortune and obedience [FEDALLAH, BLACKSMITH, CARPENTER] We baptize this harpoon in blood Red and white for the blood From our palms Red and white [AHAB, spoken] Ego non baptizo te in nomine patris, sed in nomine diaboli! [STARBUCK, spoken] Shall I? Shall I? Mary, my wife; Daniel, my boy! But a touch of the trigger, and I might hold them again [TASHTEGO & DAGGOO] Behold, a miracle Under the waves, in the darkness A pod of whale mothers Nursing their young [STUBB & FLASK] Shall we lower, Mr. Starbuck? [STARBUCK] Shall I? [QUEEQUEG] Red and white Red and white Red and white [STARBUCK] Shall I? [?] [ALL] Ah [STARBUCK, spoken] No! No, we won't lower for calves. We won't lower for calves