The Quarter Deck

[AHAB, spoken]
Mr. Starbuck

[STARBUCK, spoken]
Captain! Good to see you [?]

[AHAB, spoken]
Send everyone aft

[STARBUCK, spoken]
Everyone, sir?

[AHAB, spoken]
Everyone

[STUBB, spoken]
D’ye mark him, Flask? The chick that’s in him pecks the shell. ’Twill soon be out

[sung]
[AHAB]
What do you do when you see a whale, men?

[TASHTEGO]
Sing out for him!

[DAGGOO]
Sing out for him!

[AHAB]
Good
And what do you do next men?

[QUEEQUEG]
Lower away and after him

[AHAB]
And what tune is it ye pull to men?

[TASHTEGO]
A dead whale or a stove boat

[TASHTEGO & DAGGOO]
A dead whale or a stove boat

[ALL]
A dead whale or a stove boat
A dead whale or a stove boat

[ISHMAEL, spoken]
More and more strange and fierce grew the countenance of the old man, while the mariners began to gaze curiously- marveling at their own excitement

[AHAB]
Look ye! Look ye hard lubby. D'ye see this Spanish gold doubloon. D'ye see this Spanish ounce of gold? It is a sixteen dollar piece, my men. D'ye see it? Mr. Starbuck, hand me yon top-maul. Quickly. Now ye mast-headers attend me
I tell of a white whale with a wrinkled brow
Yes, a white whale with a crooked jaw
Yes, a white whale with three holes in its starboard fluke
[spoken]
Spanish gold boys, Spanish gold
[sung]
Now whosoever of ye raises me a white whale with a wrinkled brow and a crooked jaw
Whosoever of ye raises me a white whale, with three hole in his starboard fluke
Whosoever of ye raises me a white whale, he shall have this gold ounce, m'boys!

[CREW]
Huzzah, huzzah, huzzah, huzzah
Huzzah, huzzah, huzzah, huzzah

[TASHTEGO]
Aye!

[HARPOONERS]
Captain Ahab!

[TASHTEGO]
I know this white whale
His spout is bushy shock of wheat and white as Nantucket wool

[DAGGOO]
Aye!

[HARPOONERS]
Captain Ahab!

[DAGGOO]
I know this white whale too!
He swims with a great many iron in his hide, harpoons all twisted and corkscrewed

[QUEEQUEG]
Aye!

[HARPOONERS]
Captain Ahab!

[QUEEQUEG]
I know this white whale too
He destroys and devours
He kills and he hunts

[HARPOONERS]
And he lives in all places at all times at once

The legendary
Awesome, deadly
Omnipresent, immortal
White whale

[AHAB, spoken]
Aye. You know him. You know him, men. Death and devils, men- it is Moby Dick ye have seen. Moby Dick. Moby Dick. Moby Dick

[STARBUCK]
Captain Ahab
I have heard of Moby Dick
Was it not Moby Dick that took off thy leg?

[AHAB]
To me, my men!
Aye aye, my hearties- twas Moby Dick gave me this dead stump
Aye aye, aye he butchered me forever
Robbed me of my mind
Stole my very soul
And I'll chase him round Good Hope and round Cape Horn
Round the Norway Maelstrom
Round perditions flames, until he spouts black blood
That horrid white whale
I pit myself against him
Moby Dick, he eats me away
My leg
My lungs
My heart
My head
Mutilated
All the evils
All that maddens and torments
All that cracks and cakes the brain
All the demonisms
Of life and thought
Is Moby Dick

[ALL]
He piled upon the whale’s white hump the sum of all the general rage and hate felt by his whole race from Adam down
And then, as if his chest had been a mortar, he burst his hot heart’s shell upon it

[AHAB]
What say ye, men, will ye splice hands on it, now? I think ye do look brave

[FLASK]
Aye, aye, aye
A sharp eye for the white whale

[FLASK & DAGGOO]
Aye, aye, aye
A sharp lance for Moby Dick!

[ALL]
Aye, aye, aye
A sharp lance for Moby Dick!

[STARBUCK]
Captain

[AHAB, spoken]
Mr. Starbuck what's this, are thou not game for Moby Dick?

[STARBUCK]
I am game for the jaws of death, if they come in the way of business
But I came here to hunt whales, not my commanders vengeance
How many barrels will thy vengeance yield in our Nantucket market

[AHAB]
Nantucket market
My vengeance will fetch a great premium here

[STARBUCK]
Vengeance on a dumb brute!
That simply smote thee from blindest instinct!
To be enraged with a dumb thing is blasphemous madness

[AHAB]
No Starbuck- not a dumb thing
I know it was [?] smote me
All living things are but pasteboard masks
Dishonor and reason lying underneath
If man will strike, strike through the mask
How can a prisoner reach outside but by thrusting through the wall
To me the whale is that wall
Sometimes I think there’s naught beyond, but ’tis enough
Don't talk to me of blasphemy, man- I'd strike the sun if he insulted me

[STARBUCK]
God keep me
God keep us all

[AHAB]
You there, go grab the measure of grog
The measure!
Mates, cross your lances before me
Let me touch the axis
Do you feel my electricity man?
Do you feel it surge?
Harpooners!
Turn up the sockets
Show me the goblet ends
Cup-bearers, take the iron
Hold the hot harpoon as I pour

Now commend the murderous chalices
Drink and swear "Death to Moby Dick"

[CREW]
Death to Moby Dick
Death to Moby Dick
God hunt us all, until Moby Dick is dead

[ISHMAEL, spoken]
And I, Ishmael, was one of their own! My shouts went up with the rest; my oath was welded to theirs; and Ahab’s quenchless feud was mine!

[CREW]
Death to Moby Dick
Death to Moby Dick
God hunt us all, until Moby Dick is dead

[STARBUCK]
Death to the white whale

[CREW]
Death to the white whale

[STARBUCK]
Death to the white whale

[CREW]
Death to the white whale

[STUBB, spoken]
Now let's have a jig before we ride to Blanket Bay

[PIP]
Go it, Pip!

[SAILOR]
Bang it, Pip!

[PIP]
Rig it!

[SAILOR]
Stig it!

[PIP]
Quig it!

[SAILOR]
Yeah!

[PIP]
Break the jinglers!

[SAILORS]
Break the jinglers!

[SAILOR]
Break the jinglers!

[SAILOR]
Break the jinglers!

[PIP]
There goes another one, I pound it so!

[SAILOR]
Rattle thy teeth and then pound away, and pound away

[CREW]
Rattle thy teeth and then pound away, and pound away
Dance like a whale on the line, on the line, on the line, on the line
Yes, dance like a whale on the line, on the line

[PIP]
Dance like that white whale!

[CREW]
White whale!

[PIP]
That white whale!

[CREW]
White whale!

[PIP]
That white whale!

[CREW]
White whale!

[PIP]
That white whale!

[CREW]
White whale!

[PIP]
That white white white white white

[PIP & CREW]
White white white white white white
White white white white white white
Whale!