Misc Musicals – Moby Dick A Musical Reckoning - The Whale As A Dish (Ukulele)

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[Verse 1]
     G7                                  Cm
The whale as a dish, it's not the most popular dish

           Fm           Bdim7           Cm             C7      Fm
It's too big, and too fat, and too weird, and too exceedingly rich

          G7             Cm    Fm G7 Cm
to be considered good by most

                    Fm
But five centuries ago,

     G7                 Cm           G7           Cm
whale tongue was an esteemed great delicacy in France

          Cm        Fm                           G7                   Cm
and King Henry the Eighth was known to be quite partial to barbecued porpoise

                            Fm                  G7
And I've heard of an Inuit doctor, his name is Zogranda,

                     Cm                  Ab
who recommends that infants suck on the blubber

   G7                                  Cm    Fm G7 Cm
"Exceedingly nourishing and juicy", he says
[Verse 2]
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And on the whale ships of the Dutch, whale scraps

    G7        Cm          G+                Cm7
are famously fried into fritters brown and crisp

                     Cm6            Fm                  Bb                 Eb
And of course the old monks of Dunfermline had a tangy recipe for broiled beluga

             G7                 Cm
in which the meat is made into balls

Cm         Ab                   Eb                  G7
sweet and juicy little biliard balls, seasoned and spiced

      Ab             Abm6       Eb      G7
and drenched in an admirable sauce, mm hm!
[Chorus 1] N.C. But still!
     G7                                  Cm
The whale as a dish, it's not the most popular dish

           Fm           Bdim7            Cm             C7        Fm
It's too big, and too fat, and too weird, and too exceedingly rich

          G7             Cm    Fm G7 Cm
to be considered good by most
[Bridge] Cm G7 Cm C7 Cm [Verse 3]
                           C7
Oh, and then there's the brain!

   C7                                 Fm                  C7         Fm
A creamy and fine dish that must be prepared with great craft and skill

     Fm            C7
The casket of the skull is cracked into with an axe,

            C7               Fm             C7                    Fm
and the two plump, whitish lobes look just like two large white puddings

          F7                     F     Gm              Bbm             Gb
You can mix' em in the flour and cook them up - into a most delectable mess!

            Gb           Db
Just don't eat them too often,

        Db      Cb                                                    Gb
'cuz a diet of whale brains has been known to make a man talk like a whale!

             Gb
(whalesong) Aaaaaoouuuuu!
[Chorus 2]
                       G7
Oh and that's why the whale as a dish

                   Cm
It's not the most popular dish

         Fm          Bdim7          Cm
It's too big, and too fat, and too weird

           C7        Fm F#dim7 G7
And too exceedingly rich

       Ab                    Eb        G7                           Cm
Maybe whale would a noble dish, if he weren't so colossal a fright;

       Ab                    Abm              G7          Cm Fm F#dim7 G7
But a hundred foot long meat pie tends to take away- your appeti--------ite

         Cm
Appetite!