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Verse 1
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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
Outro 1
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