Oil On The Water

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Date: Tue, 17 Dec 1996 09:45:13 -0800
From: Sylmar Converter Station Control Room 

 
Subject: Archive

Oil on the Water
       by Darden Smith & Boo Hewerdine
       From the CD: Evidence
       by Chris (sylcab@dwp.ci.la.ca.us)

       Intro:  
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       Verse:

     
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     oil on the water        flames across the sea        it's


     
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   everywhere it's all around         covers you and me


    
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  down below the surface    underneath the blue


    
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  gonna swim with all my might just to get away from you.. and


   
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 all this oil on the water          oil on the water

   
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 now I kissed you once and I kissed you twice   could not stop at that


   
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                cuz your kisses are like her-o-in...     Oh..


   
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  the monkey on my back


   
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 wind it is A howling and the waves are horse's white


   
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  two ships blown off course we collided in the night now there's


   
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 this oil on the water              oil on the water


   
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 oil on the water             oil on the water on this troubled sea


   
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     sailors you and me                (SOLO)


     
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                                     oil on the water


    
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              the sea is full of flames            and

   
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  it might burn out by morn'in (by morn'in) but it might not just

       
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   the same (just the same)  cause a higher tide is turning


    
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  right before my eyes something is burning and now I  realize it's

         
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   just  oil on the water                 oil on the water


        
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                       oil on the water


     
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   oil on the water on this troubled sea        sailors you and


    
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   me.....      O-I-L   and water    O-I-L .....


    
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