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Show Some Respect (Broadway Version) Lyrics by Sting

The Last Ship (Original Broadway Cast Recording)

2014

[PEGGY]
Show some respect on this deck for the dear departed
Gather ye’s round, let’s be bound by the work he started
Save all your strength for the length of the task before us
Think on that ship on the slipway they can’t ignore us
It’s what he would have wanted, he’ll not be disappointed
Each of us well appointed, we’ve all but been anointed
Such was our occupation, this means of our salvation
We’ll make a rope out of our dreams and hopes and tribulations
[PEGGY & GIDEON]
We’ll weave these strands together, we’ll splice a rope and tether
And though we won’t know whether, it’s fair or stormy weather
We’ll quit this quay, and we’ll cast this net of souls upon the sea
[PEGGY](spoken)
Oh Christ!
[JACKIE](spoken)
Go on Peggy!
[PEGGY](sung)
Come strike the floor
With your feet
All you lads and lasses
And if you’re too old to dance you can raise your glasses
Just come on in
Take a spin, in your dreams you’ve held her
What are ye? Man, or a mouse
[ENSEMBLE]
(oooo)
(ahhh)
[JACKIE](spoken)
Oh, get them up!
[ENSEMBLE]
(oooo)
(ahhh)
(oooo)
[PEGGY, JACKIE, GIDEON, BILLY & DAVY]
Or a shipyard welder?
[COMPANY]
Shy bairns get now’t for waiting, so why ye hesitating?
Ships don’t get built debating, or launched just contemplating
Wear out your old shoe leather, we’re in this dance together
We’ll pull the blades and feather, in foul or clement weather
Each one of us connected, all trades and skills respected
Always to be expected, we will not be deflected
We’ll quit this quay and we’ll cast this net of souls upon the sea
[WOMEN]
Da da da da da da da da da da da da da...
[MEN]
Da da da da da da da da da da da da da...
[WOMEN]
Da da da da da da da da da da da da da...
[MEN]
Da da da da da da da da da da da da da...
[WOMEN]
Da da da da da da da...
[MEN]
Da da da da da da da...
[WOMEN]
Da da da da da da da...
[MEN]
Da da da da da da da...
[COMPANY]
Ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah...
[GIDEON] (to Meg)
Life is a dance, a romance, where ye take your chances
Just don’t be left on the shores of regretful glances
[COMPANY]
Show some respect, fill the deck, get the lassies twirling
Cos they expect to be swept off their feet and whirling
Life is a dance, a romance, where ye take your chances
Just don’t be left on the shores of regretful glances
We may not drive Rolls Royces, we’re hardly spoilt for choices
If we’re to pay invoices, we’ll need to raise our voices
Our strength is in communion, this boilermaker’s union
This shipwright welder’s guild, with every working station filled
These bonds we’ve spliced together, we’ll face all kinds of weather
Considered altogether, and sailing hell for leather
We’ll quit this quay, and we’ll cast this net of souls upon the sea
[PEGGY]
Where will you be, when we cast this net of souls upon the sea?
[COMPANY]
Where will you be when we cast this net of souls upon the sea?
[PEGGY & JACKIE]
Show some respect on this deck for the dear departed
Gather ye’s round let’s be bound...
[ENSEMBLE]
Upon the sea
Upon the sea
[PEGGY, JACKIE, & COMPANY]
Upon the sea.......ya!
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