The Quarter Deck

Lyrics

[AHAB, spoken] Mr. Starbuck [STARBUCK, spoken] Captain! Good to see you [?] [AHAB, spoken] Send everyone aft [STARBUCK, spoken] Everyone, sir? [AHAB, spoken] Everyone [STUBB, spoken] D'ye mark him, Flask? The chick that's in him pecks the shell. 'Twill soon be out [sung] [AHAB] What do you do when you see a whale, men? [TASHTEGO] Sing out for him! [DAGGOO] Sing out for him! [AHAB] Good And what do you do next men? [QUEEQUEG] Lower away and after him [AHAB] And what tune is it ye pull to men? [TASHTEGO] A dead whale or a stove boat [TASHTEGO & DAGGOO] A dead whale or a stove boat [ALL] A dead whale or a stove boat A dead whale or a stove boat [ISHMAEL, spoken] More and more strange and fierce grew the countenance of the old man, while the mariners began to gaze curiously- marveling at their own excitement [AHAB] Look ye! Look ye hard lubby. D'ye see this Spanish gold doubloon. D'ye see this Spanish ounce of gold? It is a sixteen dollar piece, my men. D'ye see it? Mr. Starbuck, hand me yon top-maul. Quickly. Now ye mast-headers attend me I tell of a white whale with a wrinkled brow Yes, a white whale with a crooked jaw Yes, a white whale with three holes in its starboard fluke [spoken] Spanish gold boys, Spanish gold [sung] Now whosoever of ye raises me a white whale with a wrinkled brow and a crooked jaw Whosoever of ye raises me a white whale, with three hole in his starboard fluke Whosoever of ye raises me a white whale, he shall have this gold ounce, m'boys! [CREW] Huzzah, huzzah, huzzah, huzzah Huzzah, huzzah, huzzah, huzzah [TASHTEGO] Aye! [HARPOONERS] Captain Ahab! [TASHTEGO] I know this white whale His spout is bushy shock of wheat and white as Nantucket wool [DAGGOO] Aye! [HARPOONERS] Captain Ahab! [DAGGOO] I know this white whale too! He swims with a great many iron in his hide, harpoons all twisted and corkscrewed [QUEEQUEG] Aye! [HARPOONERS] Captain Ahab! [QUEEQUEG] I know this white whale too He destroys and devours He kills and he hunts [HARPOONERS] And he lives in all places at all times at once The legendary Awesome, deadly Omnipresent, immortal White whale [AHAB, spoken] Aye. You know him. You know him, men. Death and devils, men- it is Moby Dick ye have seen. Moby Dick. Moby Dick. Moby Dick [STARBUCK] Captain Ahab I have heard of Moby Dick Was it not Moby Dick that took off thy leg? [AHAB] To me, my men! Aye aye, my hearties- twas Moby Dick gave me this dead stump Aye aye, aye he butchered me forever Robbed me of my mind Stole my very soul And I'll chase him round Good Hope and round Cape Horn Round the Norway Maelstrom Round perditions flames, until he spouts black blood That horrid white whale I pit myself against him Moby Dick, he eats me away My leg My lungs My heart My head Mutilated All the evils All that maddens and torments All that cracks and cakes the brain All the demonisms Of life and thought Is Moby Dick [ALL] He piled upon the whale's white hump the sum of all the general rage and hate felt by his whole race from Adam down And then, as if his chest had been a mortar, he burst his hot heart's shell upon it [AHAB] What say ye, men, will ye splice hands on it, now? I think ye do look brave [FLASK] Aye, aye, aye A sharp eye for the white whale [FLASK & DAGGOO] Aye, aye, aye A sharp lance for Moby Dick! [ALL] Aye, aye, aye A sharp lance for Moby Dick! [STARBUCK] Captain [AHAB, spoken] Mr. Starbuck what's this, are thou not game for Moby Dick? [STARBUCK] I am game for the jaws of death, if they come in the way of business But I came here to hunt whales, not my commanders vengeance How many barrels will thy vengeance yield in our Nantucket market [AHAB] Nantucket market My vengeance will fetch a great premium here [STARBUCK] Vengeance on a dumb brute! That simply smote thee from blindest instinct! To be enraged with a dumb thing is blasphemous madness [AHAB] No Starbuck- not a dumb thing I know it was [?] smote me All living things are but pasteboard masks Dishonor and reason lying underneath If man will strike, strike through the mask How can a prisoner reach outside but by thrusting through the wall To me the whale is that wall Sometimes I think there's naught beyond, but 'tis enough Don't talk to me of blasphemy, man- I'd strike the sun if he insulted me [STARBUCK] God keep me God keep us all [AHAB] You there, go grab the measure of grog The measure! Mates, cross your lances before me Let me touch the axis Do you feel my electricity man? Do you feel it surge? Harpooners! Turn up the sockets Show me the goblet ends Cup-bearers, take the iron Hold the hot harpoon as I pour Now commend the murderous chalices Drink and swear "Death to Moby Dick" [CREW] Death to Moby Dick Death to Moby Dick God hunt us all, until Moby Dick is dead [ISHMAEL, spoken] And I, Ishmael, was one of their own! My shouts went up with the rest; my oath was welded to theirs; and Ahab's quenchless feud was mine! [CREW] Death to Moby Dick Death to Moby Dick God hunt us all, until Moby Dick is dead [STARBUCK] Death to the white whale [CREW] Death to the white whale [STARBUCK] Death to the white whale [CREW] Death to the white whale [STUBB, spoken] Now let's have a jig before we ride to Blanket Bay [PIP] Go it, Pip! [SAILOR] Bang it, Pip! [PIP] Rig it! [SAILOR] Stig it! [PIP] Quig it! [SAILOR] Yeah! [PIP] Break the jinglers! [SAILORS] Break the jinglers! [SAILOR] Break the jinglers! [SAILOR] Break the jinglers! [PIP] There goes another one, I pound it so! [SAILOR] Rattle thy teeth and then pound away, and pound away [CREW] Rattle thy teeth and then pound away, and pound away Dance like a whale on the line, on the line, on the line, on the line Yes, dance like a whale on the line, on the line [PIP] Dance like that white whale! [CREW] White whale! [PIP] That white whale! [CREW] White whale! [PIP] That white whale! [CREW] White whale! [PIP] That white whale! [CREW] White whale! [PIP] That white white white white white [PIP & CREW] White white white white white white White white white white white white Whale!