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The essex set sail

From nantucket to hunt whales

This is owen chase's tale

Of the ocean's briny deep



The creature now made mythic

In the south pacific

Turns the tale horrific

Of the ocean's briny deep

Of the ocean - misery

Stove

Stove by a whale

Three harpoons in the back

The eighty-foot devil

Turned and attacked

Of the ocean's briny deep

With fury hellbent it

Stove by a ship

Down the ship went

Of the ocean's briny deep

Of the ocean - misery

Stove

Stove by a whale (x2)

Drifted for ninety days

Suffering in the waves

In a saltwater craze



Of the ocean's briny deep

Forced to survive

Forced to cannibalize

Eating the dead to stay alive



Of the ocean's briny deep

Of the ocean - misery

Stove by a whale (x12)

Stove