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"The Mariner's Revenge Song" is a song by The Decemberists from their 2005 album ''Picaresque''. ==Plot summary== The story begins as the narrator, one of two survivors stranded in the belly of a whale, explains to his companion how (unknown to the companion) their lives were interwoven. The narrator details how, when he was three, his widowed mother fell in love with an eighteen-year-old roustabout, who was charming at first but was later revealed as a gambler and womanizer. The roustabout then disappeared, leaving only his gambling debts and the mother sick with consumption. The magistrate repossessed their estate to pay for the debts and the mother later died, leaving the boy an orphan. On her deathbed, the boy's mother instructs the boy to avenge her death, telling him:
Fifteen years later, having found work cleaning a priory, the boy hears of a whaler captain who matches the roustabout's description and is known for "wanton cruelty". The next day he joins a privateer ship to hunt him down. After 20 months at sea, the privateer crew spots the whaling ship, but a giant whale attacks both ships before they are able to board. Everyone is killed, except the narrator and the roustabout. The narrator then tells the man who ruined his mother's life that it must have been by "divine providence" that only they survived, and cautions the roustabout to listen closely, as what he will be told next "will be the last words (he) will ever hear". Though the lyrics end here, the musical theme that played during the mother's instructions is repeated several times, each time in escalating tempo, implying the culmination of the narrator's pyrrhic victory over the roustabout. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Mariner's Revenge Song」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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