Steve Goodman - Moby Book lyrics

Call me Ishmael Ishmael is my name Call me Ishmael Ishmael is my name And I served under Captain Ahab And I sailed in Bounding Main Ahab walked out that deck And he said unto his men 'Til we spot that great white whale We will not sail home again And he took out a gold coin And he nailed it to the tree Says this coin belongs to the man Who spots the whale that took my leg from me Forty days at sea, forty days and forty nights We took many a whale my boys But not one white whale in sight Hear that lookout holler - oh there she blows Lower the boats And over the side we go Queequeg threw that first harpoon Ahab threw another Starbuck threw a third And the boat capsized in the water Now that great white whale is the biggest I ever did see And I pray oh Lord Won't you save for me Oh the sea gets boilin' And makes a mournful sound The Peaquod was lost And many a man did drown Black blood comes from that white whale What's that I see Ahab ride that whale's tail And when I woke up on a British Man O' War I made a vow to the moon and stars I would go to sea no more Call me Ishmael Ishmael is my name I served under Captain Ahab Out on the Bounding Main