North Sea Oil

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, 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, is North Sea Oil

Viking, Forties, Fisher - north-west, backing west, four to five
Dogger, German Bight - north-west, five or six, occasionally gale eight

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, in North Sea, in North Sea Oil