Stove By A Whale

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 by a whale

Three harpoons in its back
The eighty foot devil
Turned to attack
Of the ocean's briny deep

With fury hellbent
It stove in the ship
And down the ship went
Of the ocean's briny deep
Of the ocean - misery

Stove by a whale

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