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]
Fm G7 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]
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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]
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[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!