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Out Came Oil
Exxon Bicentenial Singers (1976)
Oil's been around for centuries sure,
floating in springs, in lakes and the streams.
The Indians used if for a medicine cure,
but never in the wildest of dreams
did anyone think, that black sticky stuff,
always in short supply,
would ever have the power enough to gush its way to the sky!
Chorus:
When out came oil!
Out came oil!
Once that Edwin Drake dude,
struck the bubbling crude,
as his drill cut through the soil
Out came oil!
Out came oil!
Spindletop,
Turned it around
The world soon saw just what oil could mean
Starting off slow blowing out of the ground
Then refining that crude to pure kerosene
Oh we really started cracking with a process devised
when a guy named Burton appeared
The history of oil kept us all suprised, cause it's only been one-hundred years!
Since
Out - came - oil!
Out - came - oil!
Industry stood right on,
serving home and farm
It caused the melting pot to boil
When
OUT CAME OIL
OUT CAME OIL
From the hunches and devining rods
Going agaist all of the odds
To the power and the lubrication
For every type of transportation and equipment you can name
Since
Out - came - oil!
Out - came - oil!
Nothing, in this world,
has been the same!!!!
OUT CAME OIL!!
OUT CAME OIL!!!!
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