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Tuning: E A D G B E
[Verse]
On a Cstarry black night At the Fbase of Mount Hogen BeyoAmnd Horsetail Creek And FAnderson Bay From the Cport of Valdez Sailed a Fship bound for Long Beach Over Amone million barrels of Gcrude stowed away
To the Cleft of the wheel In the Fbridge on the upper deck AmUnder the compass was Fhe NaviCgation computer The Fcaptain and fisherman's Amfriend Who could steer perfectFly
[Chorus]
They called him AbIron Mike In the Gmdead of the Fnight He sAbteered the way through the Bbsus4darknesBbs AbIron Mike, didn’t Gmsee the red Flight on the Csus4reef
[Verse]
Now the Cskipper had twenty years Fsailing with Exxon He'd been Amknown to throw back one or Ftwo Yet Cno one thought twice when he Fset auto-pilot And retAmired below with the cGrew
From the Ctwo AM stillness Came the Fcry of the third mate Someone Ambetter go wake up the Fchief Yet by Cthen, it was too late The Fstarboard tanks had twelve-foot Amgashes cut out by FBligh Reef
[Chorus]
AbIron Mike In the Gmdead of the Fnight He Absteered the way through the Bbsus4darknesBbs AbIron Mike, didn't Gmsee the red Flight on the Csus4reef, on the reef
[Verse]
The forCget-me-knots cried and the Fsalmon all died And the Amfishermen wore black armFbands And the Cspokesmen from Exxon Said Fno major damage Though Amsix million gallons remGain in the sands
And from CRocky Point down To Mount FFreemantle you can still Amsee The black film on the Fsoil And the Cechos rebound Throughout FPrince William Sound Of the Amhalf-frozen animals Fchoking in oil
[Chorus]
AbIron Mike In the Gmdead of the Fnight He Absteered the way through the Bbsus4darknesBbs AbIron Mike, didn’t Gmsee the red Flight on the Csus4reef
[Bridge]
CWho's at the helm of Gmthis ship of Fstayed We're Abin for some rough naviBbsus4gation Bb We Fhave the power, The hour is late Gotta Abget tough and clean up the naCsus4tion G
[Verse]
On the Cfirst of the year South of FGovernor's Island In the Amwaterway called Arthur FKill Black CRainbows of Exxon Like FGrayed again flowed like hot Amfudge In a big Apple Gspill
The deCtection machine had malFfunctioned quite often AmRepair procedures so Fhard to enforce And Cdown on Paul's Island The cFleanup begins and the Amhorror continues Till we Fchart our own course
[Chorus]
AbIron Mike It's the Gmdead of the Fnight We can Absteer a new way through theBbsus4 darkneBbss AbIron Mike, we must Gmsee the Flight for Csus4relief, for relief, for relief, for relief