The Final Voyage of the Wailer’s Essex Rusty Cage

[Verse 1]
I done my level best, to whomever’s concerned
For children of wailer’s, we all take a turn
Now we lay in our oars boat, us six men at sea
And travel for home with rations for three
Two ounces fresh water and hardtack a day
But we’ll see Nantucket again

[Verse 2]
Forty days and forty nights, we followed the wind
In the southern Pacific, many miles from land
The first mate of Essex, and few crew with me
Our captain George Pollard is lost at the sea
And I look to the East and see nothing but blue
So what can us starving men do?

[Chorus]
But sing, sing, we’re on our way home
Across the Pacific, and through the unknown
With God as our shepherd then no harm shall pass
We’ll be in Nantucket at last

[Verse 3]
But oh, how this skin of blistered leather pulls tight on our skulls
As rations all dwindle away
And oh, how our dreams every night, of our stomachs so full
But awake to find water to last two more days
Our spirits all broken, our minds are all crazed
And oh, how I’d kill for just one more good meal
But home’s a little farther away