Tonart: C major
Intro 1
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On a starry black
Verse 1
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night
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At the base of Mount Hogen
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Beyond Horsetail Creek
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From the port of Valdez
Verse 2
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Sailed a ship bound for Long Beach
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Over one million barrels
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To the left of the wheel
Verse 3
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In the bridge on the upper deck
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Under the compass was he
Verse 4
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The captain and fisherman's friend
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Who could steer perfectly
Verse 5
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They called him Iron Mike
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In the dead of the night
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He steered the way through
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the darkness
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Cm
Iron Mike, didn't see the red light on the reef
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Cm
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Verse 6
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Now the skipper had twenty years
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He'd been known to throw
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back one or two
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Yet no one thought twice
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when he set auto- pilot
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And retired below with the crew
Verse 7
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From the 2 AM stillness
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Came the cry of the third mate
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Someone better go wake up the chief
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Yet by then, it was too late
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The starboard tanks had twelve- foot
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gashes cut out by Bligh Reef
Verse 8
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In the dead of the night
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He steered the way through
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Cm
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the darkness
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Cm
Iron Mike, didn't see the red light on the reef,
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Fm
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Cm
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Fm
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on the reef
Verse 9
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The forget- me- knots cried
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and the salmon all died
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And the fishermen wore
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And the spokesmen from Exxon
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Though six million gallons re
Verse 10
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And from Rocky Point down
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To Mount Freemantle you can still see
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The black film on the soil
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And the echos rebound
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Throughout Prince William Sound
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Of the half frozen animals
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choking in oil
Verse 11
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Bb
In the dead of the night
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He steered the way through
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Cm
Bb
the darkness
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Bb
Gm
Iron Mike, didn't see the red light on
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Cm
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Fm
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the reef
Verse 12
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Who's at the helm of this
ship of stayed
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We're in for some rough navigation
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We have the power, the hour is late
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Gotta get tough and clean
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up the na tion
Verse 13
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On the first of the year
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South of Governor's Island
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In the waterway called Arthur Kill
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Black Rainbows of Exxon
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Like Grayed again flowed like hot fudge
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In a big Apple spill
Verse 14
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malfunctioed quite often
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Repair procedures so hard to enforce
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And down on Paul's Island
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The cleanup begins and the
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horror continues
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Till we chart our own course
Verse 15
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It's the dead of the night
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We can steer the way
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Cm
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through the darkness
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Iron Mike, we must see
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the light for relief
for relief
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