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Every Hand to the Lifeboats Lyrics by Valerie Vigoda

Ernest Shackleton Loves Me (Original Cast Recording)

2018

[KAT, spoken]
Ernest! What's that horrible sound?
[SHACKLETON, spoken]
It's salvation. That's the ice cracking. And do you see it there?
[KAT, spoken]
What?
[SHACKLETON, spoken]
Open water. Katherine, after thirteen months, we are free!
[SHACKLETON]
Every hand to the lifeboats, you brave, hearty men
It is time for us all to be sailors again
It is I, Ernest Shackleton, here in command
And I promise, my hearties, we're gonna find land
[KAT]
So we paddle, we pull, never slack, never slow
[KAT/SHACKLETON]
With a hey and a ho and we're on our way
[KAT]
Though our fingers all freeze to the oars as we row
[KAT, looped]
With a hey and a ho and we're on our way
[SHACKLETON]
The nearest known island a hundred miles on
[KAT, looped]
With a hey and a ho and we're on our way
[KAT/SHACKLETON]
Through the storm and the wind and the grey of the dawn
[KAT, looped]
With a hey and a ho and we're on our way
[SHACKLETON]
And we're gritting our teeth, and we shake off the cold
As the sleet falls in sharp little specks
But the hunger is starting to weaken us all
As the ice water pours down our necks
[KAT]
Now we're seasick and starving and soaked to the skin
Tormented by terrible thirst
Frostbitten, feverish, barely alive
And still we have not seen the worst
[SHACKLETON]
The crew is overwhelmed by hunger, exhaustion, misery
[SHACKLETON/KAT]
The chance of finding land so remote
So remote, and yet we sail on
Sail on
Sail on
Sail on
[SHACKLETON/KAT (KAT, looped)]
Through the jaws of the jagged ice pack (Sail on)
As the killer whales circle nearby (Sail on)
Through the crags and the canyons where we (Sail on)
Could be crushed in the blink of an eye (Sail on)
Through magnificent vistas that no man has seen (Sail on)
Glistening glaciers of aquamarine
Luminous crystalline spires of ice
An otherworldly paradise
Sun-speckled sapphire seas
The breeze
The endless gaping sky
And after seven unbearable days out at sea
The men give a shout
[SHACKLETON, spoken]
Land ahoy! Could it be?
[SHACKLETON/KAT]
We have spotted an island with stone and with sand
{KAT]
And just as you promised them
We're gonna find land
We're gonna find land
[SHACKLETON, spoken]
And we have found land
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Valerie Vigoda

Valerie Vigoda

About “Every Hand to the Lifeboats” by Valerie Vigoda

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