The Pacific Song

The Pacific Song is a song from the Disney TV special Pacifically Peeking.

The song is performed by Moby Duck (voice of Paul Frees ) and a chorus by The Mellomen.

The song details scientific information and facts about the Pacific Ocean, as well as highlighting some famous captains and explorers. A short reprise of the song was sung at the end of the show.

Lyrics
Moby: Oh, wide Pacific, great Pacific How much bigger can ye get? Yer tremendous, yer gigantic Twice the size of the Atlantic Twice the size, though ye be never twice as wet

Chorus: North Pacific, south Pacific Sixth and seventh sea

Moby: I be one of the alive ones Who'll sail t'other five ones But ye two Pacifics be the one for me

(spoken) Why, it be so big, the United States would fit snugly between Hawaii and Wake Island...if you move Wake a bit.

(sung) The span of the Pacific be 11,000 miles

Chorus: From Panama across to east Malay Should you ever get the notion to negotiate this ocean You will have to cross the date line on the way

Every Sunday, it is Monday down on little Sunday Isle On Thursday, Monday too, as you supposed

Moby: But way up in Friday Harbor...

Chorus: ..you could never find a barber For on Sunday, Friday barber shops are closed.

Moby: Vast Pacific, fast Pacific

Chorus: May your motion never cease Aren't you glad there's no deterrent to your California current? Your Australian, Humboldt or your Japanese?

Moby: (spoken) Now, the currents travel clockwise in Pacific north, and counterclockwise in Pacific south.

Chorus: And if you're drifting in the Humboldt Current westward from Peru You'll feel the balmy southeast trade winds blow Thought a marlin may impale ya somewhere in between Australia and the Tuamotu Archipelago

Moby: (spoken) "Archipelago" be a Greek word, which means "chief sea"

Chorus: Green Pacific, blue Pacific You truly made Balboa cheer It was still three months 'till Christmas when he shouted from the isthmus...

Moby: (spoken; Spanish accent) "Hoo boy, I think I have discovered something here!"

(normal tone) Next came Magellan...

Chorus: Magellan, with his scurvy crew, sailed through his crooked straight His men about to mutiny and quit When he found the Marianas, he divided up bananas Which was probably the first banana split

It was Captain Cook's third voyage to the Polynesian Isles Where he received the natives' fatal dart But his history gives no clue how on the menu of the luau He was on the dinner or just à la carte.

Moby: (spoken; British accent) By jove!

(sung; normal tone) Mad Pacific, sad Pacific Ye remember Captain Bligh

Chorus: When that mutiny was plotted, off the Bounty he was trotted And he never had a chance to say goodbye

Moby: ''(spoken; imitating Charles Loughton) Mister Christian, I will get you yet!

Reprise
Chorus: Great Pacific, wide Pacific It's you I sing the praises of

Moby: Nor' or south of the Equator Nothing's bigger, nothing's greater

Chorus: Than the P-A-C-I-F-I-C I love! Yo ho!