Jethro Tull

North Sea Oil

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Black and viscous - bound to cure blue lethargy
Sugar-plum petroleum for energy
Tightrope-balanced payments need a small reprieve
Oh, please believe we want to be
in North Sea Oil
New-found wealth sits on the shelf of yesterday
Hot-air balloon - inflation soon will make you pay
Riggers rig and diggers dig their shallow grave
But we'll be saved and what we crave
is North Sea Oil
Prices boom in Aberdeen and London Town
Ten more years to lay in fears, erase the frown
Before we are all nuclear - the better way!
Oh, let us pray: we want to stay
in North Sea Oil

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On Feb 23, 2005

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by inpraiseoffolly

19y ago

This song is a very good satire on our dependence on oil.

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by inpraiseoffolly

19y ago

Before we are all nuclear - the better way! Oh, let us pray: we want to stay in North Sea Oil

Those of are some great lines.

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