Black Gold

I had seen the captain drinking

When he took that stinking cargo out

Without a doubt he went too far

I don't know what he was thinking

But he will take us out to sea

Eighty thousand metric tons of crude

A crew of twenty-one

Just ajar her screws in motion

War pounding through the ocean

All the stars rotating in their canopy

Black gold

Rolling in the hold

Black gold

Time would now unfold

To this black gold

Back and forth

In time for every swell

The heavens fixed

Upon our last farewell

Then she hit the water with a shudder

It had got her

As she went down

What's up? says

Heard to utter was the captain in his cups

In my gut I know we all are doomed

She broke up

A hemmorage of oil gushed

A rage abroil from the soiled foil of her hull

And she was pulled beneath

The waves into her grave down in the gloom

Black gold

My heart is still in pain

Black gold

Bounding on the main

All this black gold

My mandolin will tell her how I feel

An agony of ebony and steel

What great balls of fire felt for miles around

A river spelt an ess of oil slithering

To leave your blackened

It is not romantic in the morning

And never mind come hithering

Slick stick on the shore

Seaside panic scores of frantic birds

Yet antic as they slog through all

It augurs as an ecologic nightmare to be sure

Black gold hades

High command

Black gold nature's

Upper hand

All this black gold

With ladies in mercedes on the strand

The tar upon her car and in the sand

I'm the way the resurrection

I'd say on him reflecting

With what we're doing here

For sure he'd want to

Down the deepest trenches

As their cadavers hold palaver

And the gravity of their endeavors

Christ

I'm not sure he'd feel secure

Lead us clear out of this dark

Man is stewing in his stench

Cleverly converts them into shark

Black gold

My heart is still in pain

Black gold

Bounding on the main

All this black gold

My mandolin will tell her how I feel

An agony of ebony and steel