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
 Rolling in the hold
 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
 My heart is still in pain
 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
 My heart is still in pain
 Bounding on the main
 All this black gold
 My mandolin will tell her how I feel
 An agony of ebony and steel