Jethro Tull - North Sea Oil 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