This song was altered to the version currently performed within the first week of previews (my guess would be 4/4 or 4/5).

Barrett: She's sparkling clean, this new born ship
But one old thing is clear.
The orders they propose above
We execute down here.

Bell: Aye, Mr. Murdoch. 75 revolutions.
Barrett: 75? What are they trying to do--kill us all?
Bell: Do as you're told, Mr. Barrett.

The altered lyrics:

Barrett: You trade a life spent underground
for hammer, heart, and ..........pounds
700 feet below the sea that ....... and .......
To be instead a stoker's mate
and shovel rock upon the grate
But now you're seven decks below a lady's dainty feet!

A brief scene was later added to the opening of the song that included a conversation between a stoker (Elder) and Barrett. It follows:

COMING SOON!

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All lyrics and text to Peter Stone and Maury Yeston, 1997.