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Bushwick Book Club presents MOBY DICK

by The Bushwick Book Club

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What you’ve seen, enough to split the planets foundations and mechanics Enough to make an infidel of Abraham (But you don’t give a damn) Finally at the surface we meet, But you don’t speak you are the depths I’ll never reach. What you’ve seen Makes abraham an infidel, (you don't give one syllable) Speak English, You dead fish Tell me secrets How is it I stand this close to what I'll never know. bones of millions of the drowned, dreams that will never play out, lives lost that will not be found; love we want but don't allow when heads won't speak give me give me a breeze. breeze. breeze. breeze (whale solo) Sail ho...
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Do you ever feel like Captain Ahab Chasing an elusive Whale Around and around The open ocean Like a rabid dog Chasing it’s tail When the April Moon is new Let Ahab beware Ahab Beware thyself My captain When the April moon is new Do you ever feel like Ishmael Just along the ride With a crazy person at the helm No sign of land in sight Do you ever feel Like Moby Dick Leading an epic chase The whole wide world of Whales to chose from Why’s everyone on your case When the April Moon is new Let Ahab beware Ahab Beware thyself My captain When the April moon is new The white whale Is a mask For the thing that Mauls and mutilates Letting us live on with half a heart When the April Moon is new Let Ahab beware Ahab Beware thyself My captain When the April moon is new
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My captain has a timber toe A stranger man I'd never know I'd follow him to hell and back But he keeps me up when he walks the deck! Pull boys pull O Deadly is my bright harpoon Worth its weight in gold doubloons Forged with blood and razor blades The devil himself won't get away! Pull boys pull my babies Snap your spines in two and twenty Devil may care that's just as well Pull for the back of the great white whale Pull boys pull A crew of mongrel renegades Of cannibals and castaways We work the waves without a care The jaws of death are an easy chair! Pull boys pull When bunking with a cannibal You’d better hope he’s had his fill Make sure your hammock’s tightly wrapped Or he might take a finger for a midnight snack! Pull boys pull my babies Burst your lungs for a cask of brandy Tell-tale compass points straight to hell Pull for the back of the great white whale Pull boys pull Now Jonah was a wicked man Swallowed by Leviathan Imagine our first mate's surprise To find the old man still inside Pull boys pull I leave a white and turbid wake My destiny's my worst mistake Damned and doomed I have no doubt I'm gnawed within and scorched without! Pull boys pull my babies Are you fast or are you loose fish Watch for the spout & the mighty tail Pull for the back of the great white whale Pull boys pull A whaleman’s life is a fragile thing His death knell all too often rings It’s three years since I’ve walked dry land So you can read by whale oil lamp! Pull boys pull O strength and patience, cash and time Don’t get tangled in the line Or drat the file and drat the bone You’re going down to Davy Jones! Pull boys pull Of teeth tiered sharks, O tell me not Where navies rust and anchors rot I'd be at home in Noah's flood Salty water's In my Blood! Pull boys pull my babies Clinched to desks and nailed to benches Take to the ocean and trim the sail Pull for the back of the great white whale Pull boys pull my babies Keep your weather eye wide open Sing out hearties without fail Pull for the back of the great white whale
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Ignorance is the parent of fear. And being completely confounded & nonplussed by the stranger, I now confess I was as much afraid of him as if it were the devil himself, broken into my room in the dead of night. And as I Iive, his entire body was covered with these same dark squares, same as his face, his back too, These same dark squares. He seemed to have been in a thirty year war, and just escaped from it with a sticking, plaster shirt. Still more, his very legs, the same marks. It was as if a parcel of dark green frogs were running up the trunks of great palms. It was now quite plain that he must be some abominable savage or shipped aboard, shipped aboard whale man from the South seas and so landed in this Christian country I quaked to think of it, a peddler of heads too. Perhaps the heads of his own brothers, maybe he'll take a fancy to mine Heavens look at that tomahawk. And taking up the tomahawk from the table, He examined the head of it. And then holding it up to the light with his mouth at the handle, He blew out a great cloud of tobacco smoke. And then the light was extinguished and this wild cannibal sprang into bed with me. I sang out Angels Save Me I sang out Angels Save Me I sang out Angels Save Me I sang out Angels Save Me Don't be afraid, Queequeg here wouldn't harm a hair on your head.
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I HEARD THOSE TWO WERE SAILING AWAY I TOLD THEM MAYBE YOU SHOULDN’T DO IT ‘CAUSE IT’S BEEN TRIED BEFORE LOVERS ALWAYS TRY TO SAIL THERE SADLY RETURNING TO THESE SHORES THEY WANT TO GET THERE THE PLACE WHERE LOVERS ARE THE PLACE WHERE LOVERS ARE I REMEMBER THAT SANDY MORNING IN THEIR EYES THEY BELIEVED THEY WOULD MAKE IT THAT THEY WOULD FIND A WAY ALTHOUGH, IT’S UNCHARTED WATERS ALTHOUGH, TIDES CHANGE EVERY DAY I BELIEVED THEY’D GET THERE THE PLACE WHERE LOVERS ARE THE PLACE WHERE LOVERS ARE THERE’S A LEGEND OF THE SEA BUILD YOUR BOAT TOGETHER, THEY BOTH AGREED I’VE WATCHED THEM STAY TOGETHER THROUGH ALL KINDS OF WEATHER THAT’S GOOD TRAINING FOR THE SEA OH THOSE WATERS CAN BE ROUGH BELIEVE ME I KNOW I’VE BEEN TO SEA ENOUGH ENOUGH, TO NEVER BE HURT AGAIN ENOUGH, TO NEVER LEAVE THESE SHORES AGAIN GUESS I’LL NEVER GET THERE THE PLACE WHERE LOVERS ARE THE PLACE WHERE LOVERS ARE BY NOW THEY’RE SAILING INTO TRUE LOVE BAY I’LL BET THAT THEY’RE SAILING INTO TRUE LOVE BAY THE PLACE WHERE LOVERS ARE THE PLACE WHERE LOVERS ARE THE PLACE WHERE LOVERS ARE YEAH
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All songs recorded live at The Frying Pan on June 5th, 2015.

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released July 28, 2015

Thanks to Ani for doing sound.

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The Bushwick Book Club Brooklyn, New York

We started in January 2009 playing songs written in response to Kurt Vonnegut's Breakfast of Champions. We haven't stopped since. We've written & performed songs inspired by everything from "On The Origin of Species" to Dr. Seuss to Raymond Carver. There are BBCs popping up nationwide now. Bushwick Book Club Seattle started in 2010 & is run by Geoff Larson. Our nerdy dare-devilry knows no bounds. ... more

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