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Boat Journey Lyrics by Valerie Vigoda

Ernest Shackleton Loves Me (Original Cast Recording)

2018

[SHACKLETON, spoken]
Come, my beacon of hope. Point your violin toward the North Star and guide us to our destiny. Onward to hell!
[KAT/SHACKLETON]
Sail on
[SHACKLETON]
Men
[KAT/SHACKLETON]
Sail on
Sail on
[KAT]
The water's even worse than the snow
[SHACKLETON]
Every damned wave is drenching our boat
[KAT]
Fingers are too numb to row
[SHACKLETON]
But somehow we must stay afloat
Sailing and bailing and rowing
[KAT]
Rowing and bailing and sailing
[SHACKLETON]
So hard to know where we’re going
[KAT]
Body is weak, and systems failing
What keeps you from giving up?
What keeps you from giving up?
[SHACKLETON]
I am a full-fledged optimist
[KAT/SHACKLETON]
A true-blue, full-fledged optimist
Don't you let your heart sink down
[SHACKLETON]
I say
[KAT/SHACKLETON]
Why don't you wipe away that frown
[SHACKLETON]
I say
[KAT/SHACKLETON]
We will brook no dark despair
We have come this far, we’re almost there
[KAT, spoken]
We're not, are we?
[SHACKLETON, spoken]
No. But we must convince ourselves we are
[SHACKLETON]
Thirst-ridden, sick
With our lips dry and cracked
We both seem to be beyond help
But look, something green
In the black, raging sea
My god, it appears to be kelp!
[KAT, spoken]
Should I be excited about kelp?
[SHACKLETON, spoken]
For it means that land is not far! Bloody hell, a hurricane!
[KAT, spoken]
They have hurricanes in the Antarctic?
[KAT]
Through the shrieks of the storm
Nearly dashed on the rocks
As the gale tears the tops off the waves
[SHACKLETON]
And it pains me to say
But I'll tell you, I fear
We are destined for watery graves!
[KAT, spoken]
No!
[KAT]
Don't let your heart sink down, I say!
Why don't you wipe away that frown, I say!
I will brook no dark despair
[KAT/SHACKLETON]
We have come so far we're almost
[KAT, spoken]
There!
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Valerie Vigoda

Valerie Vigoda

About “Boat Journey” by Valerie Vigoda

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"Boat Journey" appears on "Ernest Shackleton Loves Me (Original Cast Recording)" in 2018.

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