Nantucket Sleigh Ride Lyrics

Lyric discussion by Massapequa 

Cover art for Nantucket Sleigh Ride lyrics by Mountain

This has got absolutely nothing to do with drugs. Mr Starbuck was first mate on the Pequod - the whaling ship in the novel "Moby Dick" by Herman Melville.

The Nantucket Sleighride of the title is how whalers referred to their boats being dragged along behind a harpooned whale.

Kinda pisses on your drugs theory, doesn't it?

@Massapequa HA! The song was actually about the whaling ship Essex and Owen Coffin who was eaten by his shipmates. Robin Marie was his girlfriend that he left for a three year whaling tour onboard the ship Essex.