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"Oh the engine's gone dead," cried the men who work there |
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And she passed up the dock on the wide |
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Delaware Then the ship ran aground and the oil got away |
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And they penned that report, "The Big Spill" on that day |
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It was hundreds of thousands of gallons galore |
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Stretching thirty-two miles down the |
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Delaware shore |
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There were geese in the marshes out looking for food |
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They got stuck where they stood 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 Don't buy it at the station, you can have it now for free |
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Just come on down to the shoreline where the water used to be |
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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, we were told |
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In a week's worth of rough winter weather and waves |
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The boat started cracking and it could not be saved |
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It was seven-point-six million gallons this time |
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Consider the danger and think of the crime |
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As it poured out a slick stretching into the tide |
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Over hundred-miles and yes, 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 Oh, don't buy it at the station, you can have it now for free |
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Just come on down to the shoreline where the water used to be |
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There's talk of some writing found in the ship's log |
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Saying one of the helmsmen's unfit for his job |
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And the ship's gyro compass was six degrees shy |
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Their charts were outdated but they, 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 Don't buy it at the station, you can have it now for free |
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Just come on down to the shoreline where the water used to be |
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Yeahhh Now both of these ships, like a great many more |
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Got registered in through |
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Liberian doors |
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Inspections are quick and regulations are few |
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Just sign on the line and go find you a crew, yes |
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One of these ships was the |
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Olympic Games |
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The Argo Merchant was the other one's name |
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Well it's sad, but it's true, things got worse for the seas ' |
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Cause I ain't even mentioned |
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Amoco Cadiz |
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Amoco Cadiz, between |
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England and |
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France The big super tanker out there taking it's chance |
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With its one-hundred-thousand black tons of the slime |
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Amoco Cadiz spilled the 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 Oh, don't buy it at the station, you can have it now for free |
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Just come on down to the shoreline where the water used to be |
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Now down in the |
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Gulf east of |
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Mexico Way |
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There's something gone wrong, so the papers all say |
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A Mexican oil well is leaking it's goo |
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They say it's the worse that things have ever come to |
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Yes it's gallons of sludge, sixty-million and more |
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It's cruising and oozing towards many a shore |
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Yes, things have got bad but they will probably get worse |
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If you can't drink the oil, oh, you might, 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 Don't buy it at the station, you can have it now for free |
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Just come on down to the shoreline where the water used to be |
