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Oil on the Water
by Darden Smith & Boo Hewerdine


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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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