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Every time I draw a whale I think about Ishmael having something critical to say about it.
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Transcript:
Panel 1, [Long panel, show sailors gathering up rope and harpoons]
Panel 2 [Flashback image ripping through page, showing whalers in tumultuous water, their rowboat up alongside a whale. A harpoon is fast to the whale, and the whalers are struggling with it, their boat nearly overturned and up against the whale’s open jaws]
NARRATION:
We hunted them til we could not stand, leave her johnny leave her.
And the harpoon lines cut into our hands and it’s time for us to leave her.
Panel 3 [whalers rolling barrels of oil off ship]
Panel 4 [Pulled back shot o the streets of New Bedford, full of barrels.]
Panel 1, [Long panel, show sailors gathering up rope and harpoons]
Panel 2 [Flashback image ripping through page, showing whalers in tumultuous water, their rowboat up alongside a whale. A harpoon is fast to the whale, and the whalers are struggling with it, their boat nearly overturned and up against the whale’s open jaws]
NARRATION:
We hunted them til we could not stand, leave her johnny leave her.
And the harpoon lines cut into our hands and it’s time for us to leave her.
Panel 3 [whalers rolling barrels of oil off ship]
Panel 4 [Pulled back shot o the streets of New Bedford, full of barrels.]
I realized as I was reading this, I was hearing the lyrics in your voice 😀
Haha, I did indeed do a recording of this particular shanty rewrite!