Moby Duck

Moby Duck is the tenth track on the 2020 album Cures What Ails Ya. It was written by Dave Robinson and, as such, is a  Longest Johns original. It also features Lucy Humphris on trumpet. (Doot)

Moby Duck tells of the brutal slaying of a noble and kind creature who never meant harm to any man.

The song was also the subject of a community art video project; submissions were solicited beginning in June 2020, and the finished video was released on YouTube 25 August 2021.

## Lyrics

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> After fourteen years I left the sea for a life upon a lake
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> After all the storms I'd seen, I needed a good break
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> I thought still waters would mean peace for me but that was a mistake
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> For the place I chose was bedevilled by a giant evil drake
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> A mallard of such malice, twice the size of any man
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> A bill to give you nightmares and a monstrous wingspan
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> You cannot hope to fight it so avoid him if you can
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> That terrifying waterfowl, the beast beyond the dam
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> {Chorus}
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> Row-ho, row-ho, row with all our might
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> Row with harpoons loaded and spoiling for a fight
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> Row-ho, row-ho, and with any luck
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> We'll win the day and do away the dreaded Moby Duck
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> I'm not one for surrender so a vengeful oath I swore
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> I gathered up me hearties like so many times before
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> We shod our ship with weapons and prepared to go to war
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> 'Til that fetid feathered fearsome flying duck will breathe no more
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> There was bonnie brave Marie, who to her arms had waved goodbye
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> And handsome Jack, whose duck-attack left him without an eye
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> The Darby twins with one leg each on deck were standing by
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> Only a couple dozen limbs between a crew of twenty-five
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> {Chorus}
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> The fight raged on for several hours, defend and then attack
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> With beatings from those wicked wings our boat began to crack
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> The beast reared up to finish the job, and with a mighty quack
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> (JD releases the quackin')
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> I rammed my harpoon in his throat and made a tasty snack
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> Row-ho, row-ho, row us back to shore
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> We'll drag his broken body back and roast it on an oar
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> Row-ho, row-ho, barbecue the beast
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> With hoisin sauce and pancakes, we will have the biggest feast
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> Row-ho, row-ho, row with all our might,
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> We rowed with harpoons loaded and spoiling for a fight
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> Row-ho, row-ho, we had all the luck
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> We won the day and did away the dreaded Moby Duck
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> We won the day and did away the dreaded Moby Duck!
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> (...quack)
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## Recordings

#### Streaming/Purchase

* Amazon Music (Cures What Ails Ya version)
* Amazon Music (Commodore 1864 version)
* Apple Music/iTunes (Cures What Ails Ya version)
* Apple Music/iTunes (Commodore 1864 version)
* Bandcamp (Cures What Ails Ya version)
* Deezer (Cures What Ails Ya version)
* Deezer (Commodore 1864 version)
* Pandora (Cures What Ails Ya version)
* Pandora (Commodore 1864 version)
* Spotify (Cures What Ails Ya version)
* Spotify (Commodore 1864 version)

#### YouTube Videos

* Lyric Video (community art project)
* Cures What Ails Ya version
* Commodore 1864 version

#### Gig Videos

* Shrewsbury Folk Festival (27 Aug 2021)
* Exeter Phoenix (26 April 2022)
* O2 Academy, Bristol, U.K. (05 May 2022) - official live video
* Cursus Festival 2023

#### Full Band Streams

* Album Launch Party! Cures What Ails Ya, Available June 10th (Preorder Now) (10 Jun 2020)
* It's hot! Stream was a bad choice... Or was it? (24 Jun 2020)
* Welcome to the Live Stream, We've got Fun and Sings! (22 Jul 2020)
* We Built This Stream(y) on Shant and Folk (11 Nov 2020)
* I Stream, You Stream, We all Scream for Live Stream (20 Jan 2021)
* Stream If You Wanna Go Faster (12 May 2021)
* Be Stream And Not Heard (6 Oct 2021)
* Nightmare on Elm Stream (27 Oct 2021)
* Strème de Menthe (27 Jul 2022)
* In Space No One Can Hear You Stream (19 Oct 2022)
* Davestream Beleaver (30 May 2023)
* A Midsummer Nights Stream (5 Jul 2023)

#### Gaming Streams

* Sea of Thieves Tall Tales Marathon for Charity: Part 1 (24 Jun 2020)
* Sea of Thieves Tall Tales Marathon for Charity: Part 2 (24 Jun 2020)
* GHOST SHIP! And some singing I guess... - 19/06/2020
* Hoist Up The Thing! - 14/08/2020
* SHANT! - 02/10/2020
* Sea of Sings! With Dave, JD and @Krotukk - 05/03/2021
* Singing and Sailing with BehavingBeardly and KroTukk - 21/03/2021
* Singing and Sailing in Sea of Thieves! With @RobRaven - 29/03/2021
* Streamy time sails with friends and song! - 23/04/2021
* Splashy splashy! Sea of Sings with Freyline - 11/10/2021
* We're back! Lily-livered land-lubbers beware! with Kharites\_ & Krotukk! - 04/02/2022

Quack.