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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;


Melville's metaphors even translate to . . )

From: http://www.roughly.net/InstantClassics/MobyDickLyrics.htm