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Stubb Kills a Whale Lyrics by Dave Malloy

Moby Dick: A Musical Reckoning

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[CREW]
Whaling, awhaling, oh that's the life for me
Having to watch your back [?] upon the sea
And my lips are set to scream and dart my harpoon through the sky
[?]
As the life goes out of his eye
Whaling, awhaling, oh that's the life for me
I dance-a with my lance [?] greatest destiny
[?] heart of the peril
[?]
[STUBB]
Pull, my children
Why don't you break your backbones
No, easy
Don't hurry
Why hurry?
I'm sleeping!
Why in the name of gudgeons and ginger-cakes
Don't you stop your snoring
[?] I said pull!
[CREW]
Aye, Mr. Stubb
Aye, aye Mr. Stubb
We are yours we [?] on the run
We pull for dear life and we pull for [?]
Hilarious and queer and [?] and fun
Ho heave ho heave - heave
Ho ho heave ho- heave hoe heave
Heave ho
Heave ho
Heave ho
[FEDALLAH]
Captain, captain
It is not the white whale we came for
I would feel its spirit
[AHAB, spoken]
We give chase none the less, Fedallah
It is good practice for the men
[CREW]
Whaling, awhaling oh that's the life for me
Having to watch your back [?] upon the sea
And my lips are set to scream and dart my harpoon through the sky
[?]
As the life goes out of his eye
[TASHTEGO]
Hey-oh we-oh
Hark there she blows
Hey-oh we-oh
Heave hoe, there she blows
[CREW]
Hey-oh we-oh
Hark there she blows
Hey-oh we-oh
Heave hoe, there she blows
[ISHMAEL]
Whales are swimming
[AHAB, spoken]
Forward men!
[ISHMAEL]
Men are singing
[AHAB, spoken]
Time to kill a fish!
[FLASK]
Pull pull pull, my strong boys
Sing out
Roar and shout
Get the oil, get the gold
Beach me on his black back
[FLASK AND STUBB]
Give a smack!
Give a poke!
Burst your livers and your lungs!
[STUBB]
I shall go stark, staring mad if I don't eat whale steak tonight!
[ISHMAEL]
Sublime wonder and awe
Oh, the omnipotent sea
How I cried in the fever of my first whale hunt
My heart went thrilling like a dead man's ghost
Opening his eyes to the unknown phantoms
Of the other world
[CREW]
Aye yi-yi-yi
And we race through white waters
Aye yi-yi-yi
And the boats quake and buckle
Aye yi-yi-yi
And the madness surrounds us
And the whales scream out
And the whales scream out
[STARBUCK, spoken]
Queequeg! Stand up!
That's his hump! There! There!
Give it to him!
[QUEEQUEG]
[Halla Ka!]
[QUEEQUEG, STARBUCK & SAILOR]
We are lost in helter-skelter in the white, curdling cream of the squall
We are lost in the water and the whale escapes
[CREW]
And the whale escapes
[QUEEQUEG, STARBUCK & SAILOR]
And the whale escapes
[STUBB]
Mr. Flask!
[AHAB]
Flask, fish them out
[FLASK]
Aye, Captain
[AHAB]
Our boat is too far out, Mr. Stubb-- it is your time to kill
[STUBB]
Men-- double down
[CREW]
Wet, drenched through, and shivering cold, dashed by the waves, listening through the fog, we cast our hopes on Stubb's boat
[STUBB]
Steady, steady
Keep cool, Tashtego
Cucumbers is the word
It's only grim death and grinning devils
Now Tashtego!
[CREW]
Huzzah! Huzzah!
Halakalaloo!
Huzzah! Huzzah! Huzzah!
Halakalaloo!
Huzzah!
[FLASK]
Nantucket sleigh ride, boys!
[STUBB]
[?]
[ISHMAEL]
The whale towards the boat
Until his [?] slow him down
[STUBB]
Haul him in, men
Haul him in, men
My lance, my lance, my lance!
[ALL]
A red tide of brine and blood pours from the monster
[STUBB]
There you go, my [?], there you go
[ALL]
The monster wobbles horribly
The monster screams his death cry
His spout hole spasms gush after gush of clotted agonized red gore
Like a purple dredge of red wine, blood and brine shoots in the air
Until Stubb thrusts his lance one last time
And bursts the heart of the whale
Credits
Dave Malloy

Dave Malloy

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