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North Sea Oil

This version of North Sea Oil was released by Jethro Tull in 1979.

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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

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Jethro Tull has released many songs over the years besides North Sea Oil. Jethro Tull released songs from 1968 to 2003 spanning across albums like This Was, Stand Up, Benefit, Aqualung, Living In The Past, Thick As A Brick, A Passion Play, Warchild, Minstrel In The Gallery, Too Old To Rock 'n' Roll: Too Young To Die!, Songs From The Wood, Heavy Horses, Stormwatch, A, The Broadsword And The Beast, Under Wraps, Crest Of A Knave, Rock Island, Catfish Rising, Nightcap, Roots To Branches, J-Tull Dot Com, and The Jethro Tull Christmas Album. Decade Lyrics has over lyrics & songs by Jethro Tull.

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The lyrics for North Sea Oil are defined as the words making up the song released by Jethro Tull in 1979. It also includes the verses and words used by the background chorus in the song. Like many hit songs, the lyrics to North Sea Oil have different meanings to different people. While it is clear in some of the lyrics what the artist is trying to really say, only Jethro Tull and those working with them know all of the meanings behind all of the lyrics to their songs.

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