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North Sea Oil - Lyrics by Jethro Tull


Lyrics
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 the 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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