The Oil Song chords by
Steve Forbert

N/A

Key: C major•

Intro 1

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Verse 1

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"Oh the

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engine's gone dead," cried the men who work there

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And she passed up the dock

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on the wide Delaware

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Then the ship ran aground

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and the oil got away

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And they penned that report,

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"The Big Spill" on that day

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It was hundreds of thousands

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of gallons galore

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Stretching thirty- two miles down

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the Delaware shore

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There were geese in the marshes

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out looking for food

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They got stuck where they stood

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in the oncoming crude

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And it's oil, oil

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Ah, drifting to the sea

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Oil, oil

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Don't buy it at the station,

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you can have it now for free

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Just come on down to the shoreline

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where the wa ter used to be

In the well- charted waters of the

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Nantucket shoals

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There's a ship run aground full of oil,

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we were told

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In a week's worth of rough winter

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weather and waves

The boat started cracking and

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it could not be saved

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It was seven- point- six million

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gallons this time

Consider the danger and

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think of the crime

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As it poured out a slick

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stretching into the tide

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Over hundred- miles and yes,

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it came deep, it came wide

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And it's oil, oil

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Oil pouring in the sea

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Oil, oil

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Oh, don't buy it at the station,

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you can have it now for free

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Just come on down to the shoreline

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where the water used to be

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There's talk of some writing found

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in the ship's log

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Saying one of the

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helmsmen's unfit for his job

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And the ship's gyro compass

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was six degrees shy

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Their charts were outdated but they,

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they tried to get by

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And you know it's oil, oil

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Yeah, pouring in the sea

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Oil, oil

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Bm

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Don't buy it at the station,

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you can have it now for free

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Just come on down to the shoreline

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where the water used to be

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Yeahhh

Now both of these ships,

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like a great many more

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Got registered in through Liberian doors

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Inspections are quick and

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regulations are few

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Just sign on the line and go find you a crew,

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yes

One of these ships was the

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Olympic Games

The Argo Merchant was the

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other one's name

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Well it's sad, but it's true,

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things got worse for the seas

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'Cause I ain't even mentioned

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Amoco Cadiz

Amoco Cadiz,

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between England and France

The big super tanker out there

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taking it's chance

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With its one- hundred- thousand black

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tons of the slime

Amoco Cadiz spilled the

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most of all time

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Yes, ya' know it's oil, oil

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Man, it's creepin' in the sea

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Oil, oil

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Bm

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Oh, don't buy it at the station,

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you can have it now for free

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Just come on down to the shoreline

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where the water used to be

Now down in the Gulf east of

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Mexico Way

There's something gone wrong,

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so the papers all say

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A Mexican oil well is leaking

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it's goo

They say it's the worse that

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things have ever come to

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Yes it's gallons of sludge,

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sixty- million and more

It's cruising and oozing

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towards many a shore

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Yes, things have got bad but

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they will probably get worse

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If you can 't drink the oil, oh, you might,

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you might die of thirst

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Because it's oil, it's oil

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And it's creeping in the sea

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Oil, oil

Bm

Bm

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Don't buy it at the station,

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you can have it now for free

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Just come on down to the shoreline where the

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water used to be

Outro 1

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