Joe said > Feel free to post whatever you like here (especially lyrics to songs you have sung or will sing) Here's the one that I sang last night, North Sea Oil Down by the North Sea shore, a while before now, While seeking me fortune and rambling around, I met a little mermaid, very pretty as I recall And I asked this fond creature where I might find oil. "Well I know a little oil well not very far from here And I've been watching over it with the tenderest care And no-one's been near there since I was a child And I think you'd find profit to drill there a while." So I set up my rig and I made a fine stand, And this sweet little creature gave me a helping hand, Saying "Daddy, oh Daddy, it makes my blood boil When you set up your rig to go boring for oil." Well I kissed this little creature ten thousand times o'er As we toiled there together all on the sea shore, With a pillow under her fish-tail, for fear it should soil. I spat on me auger and went boring for oil. Well I hadn't been drilling three minutes or four. At a few inches depth, boys, the gusher did pour. And she wriggled and giggled, and she said with a smile "Oh bear down on that auger, for I think you've struck oil." But it was just a few days after, a thought came in me head, For the end of that auger was rusty and red. And I took it to the doctor, and he said with a smile "I think you struck shale when boring for oil." I got it from my own recording of Bert at Dingle's Folk Club in London on 4th April 1973. I have deliberately not checked the above words against the recording, so feel free to spot any folk-processing that I may have done over the years. In his introduction he refers to earlier versions, so maybe I was wrong in saying that this is one that was entirely his own work rather than his improved version of an existing song, but I suspect that in this form it is mostly his work. Then again, maybe someone would like to go looking for the earlier versions.
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