Key: C major
Intro 1
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Csus4
C
G
Am
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C
On a starry black
Verse 1
G
night
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G
Beyond Horsetail Creek
Verse 2
G
C
F
Over one million barrels
Verse 3
G
F
In the bridge on the upper deck
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C
G
F
Under the compass was he
Verse 4
G
F
C
The captain and fisherman's friend
F
G
Who could steer perfectly
Verse 5
C
Ab
They called him Iron Mike
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Bb
In the dead of the night
Cm
Bb
the darkness
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Eb
Bb
Cm
Iron Mike, didn't see the red light on the reef
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Bb
C
Cm
Ab
Verse 6
Bb
Csus4
C
G
C
G
Now the skipper had twenty years
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F
back one or two
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G
Yet no one thought twice
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F
G
And retired below with the crew
Verse 7
C
G
From the 2 AM stillness
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G
F
Someone better go wake up the chief
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G
Yet by then, it was too late
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F
G
C
gashes cut out by Bligh Reef
Verse 8
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Bb
In the dead of the night
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Cm
Bb
the darkness
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Eb
Bb
Cm
Iron Mike, didn't see the red light on the reef,
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Fm
Bb
C
G
Cm
Ab
Fm
C
G
on the reef
Verse 9
C
G
The forget- me- knots cried
C
G
And the fishermen wore
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G
And the spokesmen from Exxon
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F
Though six million gallons re
Verse 10
G
F
C
To Mount Freemantle you can still see
G
F
The black film on the soil
C
G
And the echos rebound
C
F
Of the half frozen animals
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C
G
C
choking in oil
Verse 11
Eb
Bb
In the dead of the night
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Cm
Bb
the darkness
Ab
Eb
Bb
Gm
Iron Mike, didn't see the red light on
Cm
Ab
Cm
Ab
Fm
C
G
the reef
Verse 12
Ab
Eb
Who's at the helm of this
ship of stayed
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Eb
We're in for some rough navigation
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Eb
We have the power, the hour is late
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Cm
G
up the na tion
Verse 13
Cm
G
C
On the first of the year
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F
South of Governor's Island
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G
F
In the waterway called Arthur Kill
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C
G
Black Rainbows of Exxon
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C
Like Grayed again flowed like hot fudge
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G
In a big Apple spill
Verse 14
C
G
F
Repair procedures so hard to enforce
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G
And down on Paul's Island
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F
horror continues
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C
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C
Till we chart our own course
Verse 15
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Bb
It's the dead of the night
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Cm
Bb
through the darkness
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Eb
Iron Mike, we must see
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Ab
the light for relief
for relief
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