Folk Process: Oh the Oil in the Gulf

Here is yet another instalment in my series of Folk Process songs about the BP Oil Spill Disaster in the Gulf of Mexico.

Oh the Oil in the Gulf
by Clayton A. Peak
(tune: Give Me Oil in My Lamp)

Verse
Oh the oil in the Gulf keeps on flowing, flowing, flowing
Keeps on flowing in the Gulf to stay - Holy Moses!
Oh the oil in the Gulf keeps on flowing, flowing, flowing
Keeps on flowing 'till the Judgement Day!

Chorus
Someone stop it
Someone stop it
Someone stop it
Oh dear God, we pray!

(repeat chorus)

Folk Process: Oil Keeps Leaking

Here's one more exercise in Folk Process about the BP oil spill disaster in the Gulf of Mexico. Like the first song I posted, this one may be sung as a round. Have fun!

Oil Keeps Leaking
by Clayton A. Peak
(tune: Frere Jacques)

Oil keeps leaking
Oil keeps leaking
In the Gulf
In the Gulf
Everything is dying
Everything is dying
What a shame
What a shame

Folk Process: The Oil in the Gulf

I hope you enjoyed yesterday's post as I shared a song I had "written" about the BP oil spill disaster in the Gulf of Mexico. Here's another one. I've set it to a familiar children's song: "The wheels on the bus go round and round." Perhaps you've been on a long car trip where you've sung verse after verse after verse! My version here works the same way. So once again, sing this song, share it with the kids, and have fun!


The Oil in the Gulf
by Clayton A. Peak
(tune: The Wheels on the Bus)

The oil in the Gulf goes gush, gush, gush
gush, gush, gush, gush, gush, gush
The oil in the Gulf goes gush, gush, gush
Each and every day.

The plants in the Gulf go yuck, yuck, yuck...

The fish in the Gulf go choke, choke, choke...

The shore by the Gulf is gross, gross, gross...

The bureaucrats sit and go hmm, hmm, hmm...

Folk Process: Oil, Oil

Folk Process: the act of reworking an old song, often with the intent of addressing a contemporary situation.

Long before Randy Newman wrote Burn On about the infamous Cuyahoga River fire of 1969, folk musicians have been writing new songs and adapting old songs to address various disasters and tragic events taking place in the world. So in response to the recent BO oil spill disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, I've been engaging in a little folk process myself.

My first effort is a round, sung to the old tune of Rose, Rose. I invite you to sing this song, teach it to your kids, sing it around the campfire, etc., and have fun!

Oil, Oil
by Clayton A. Peak
(tune: Rose, Rose)

Oil, oil, oil, oil,
Keeps on leaking into the Gulf
Everything is getting coated
It's a big mess

(repeat ad naseum)