《The Oil Song》是Steve Forbert演唱的歌曲，收錄於《The Best of Steve Forbert: What Kinda Guy?》專輯中。
基本介紹
- 外文名：The Oil Song
- 所屬專輯：The Best of Steve Forbert: What Kinda Guy?
- 歌曲原唱：Steve Forbert
- 發行日期：2011年01月01日
歌曲歌詞
Oh the engine's gone dead
Cried the men who work there
And she passed up the dock
On the wide delaware
Then the ship ran aground and the oil got away
And they penned that report
The big spill on that day
It was hundreds of thousands of gallons galore
Stretching thirty two miles down the delaware shore
There were geese in the marshes out looking for food
They got stuck where they stood in the oncoming crude
And it's oil
Oil
Ah drifting to the sea
Oil
Oil
Don't buy it at the station
You can have it now for free
Just come on down to the shoreline
Where the water used to be
In the well charted waters
Of the nantucket shoals
Was a ship run aground
Full of oil
We were told
In a week's worth of rough
Winter weather and waves
The boat started cracking
And it
Could not be saved
It was seven point six million gallons this time
Consider the danger
And think of the crime
As it
Poured out a slick stretching into the tide
Over one hundred miles and yes it came deep it came
Wide and it's oil
Oil
Oil pouring in the sea
Oil
Oil
Oh don't buy it at the station
You can have it now for free
Just come on down to the shoreline
Where the water used to be
There's talk of some writing
Found in the ship's log
Saying one of the helmsmen's unfit for his job
And the ship's gyro compass was six degrees shy
Their charts were outdated but they
They tried to get by
And you know it's oil
Oil
Yeah pouring in the sea
Oil
Oil oil
Don't buy it at the station
You can have it now for free
Just come on down to the shoreline
Where the water used to be
Yeah
Now both of these ships
Like a great many more
Got registered in
Through liberian doors
Inspections are quick and regulations are few
Just sign on the line and go find you a crew yes
One of these ships
Was the olympic games
The argo merchant was the other one's name
Well it's sad but it's true things got worse for
The seas
'Cause I ain't even mentioned
Amoco Cadiz
Amoco Cadiz
Between England and France
The big super tanker out there taking it's chance
Within one hundred thousand black tons of the slime
Amoco Cadiz spilled the most of all time
Yes you know it's oil
Oil
Man it's creepin' in the sea
Oil
Oil oh don't buy it at the station
You can have it now for free
Just come on down to the shoreline
Where the water used to be
Now down in the gulf
East of Mexico way
There's something gone wrong so the papers all say
A mexican oil well is leaking it's goo
They say it's the worse that things have ever come to
Yes it's gallons of sludge
Sixty million and more
It's cruising and oozing towards many a shore
Yes things have got bad but they will probably get worse
If you can't drink the oil
Oh you might you might die of thirst
Because it's oil
It's oil
And it's creeping in the sea
Oil
Oil
Don't buy it at the station
You can have it now for free
Just come on down to the shoreline
Where the water used to be
Yeah
