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Thread #60470 Message #967550
Posted By: Sorcha
17-Jun-03 - 09:02 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Enderby Whaling
Subject: Lyr Add: MOBY DICK
Maybe??
Moby-Dick - Lyrics By Roughly Enforcing Nostalgia (11/10/99) Based on the novel by Herman Melville. MP3
Call me Ish- Mael, 'cause Mapple preached on that day, "Your nature's In oppo- sition with God's way." Met Starbuck, Queequeg, Stubb: All dead by a few Chapters la- ter, the Sign Of Jonah knew.
Can't find the whale, But sooner eat kale Then renege our boast That we'd see Dick roast In our blubber pails.
(We can't find the whale; We swore to sail;
We drank a toast to Moby's trail.) Pip sank in- To madness; Fleece preached to the sharks; Enderby's Skipper showed Where Dick left his mark, Once bitten. The Great White Charged our ship, raising cain. Ahab, caught By the neck, Got drug down the drain.
We found the whale; We tried and failed. I'm the one left to speak From the pulpit's beak On how life's so frail . . . Braille! (We found the whale; All's left afloat are the nails;