BP's Wide Wide River (an oil spill song)

Larkworthy Antfarm adapts The Fugs' song "Wide Wide River" with no apologies to BP. Leave the apologies to Rep. Joe Barton (R-TX). Warning: song contains profanity. And bad singing. BP deserves no less.


This song goes out to the fighters! The Women of Code Pink who keep getting tossed out of the BP hearings for making noise. To the fishermens' wives like Kindra Arnesen who keep giving BP execs a piece of their minds. To the environmentalists and Greenpeace. To the animal rights activists. To the clean-up workers and those who are manning the booms. To the mom and pop stores that have been put out of business. To the media who aren't being allowed to report the news. To the scientists and engineers who are trying to stop the oil. To the people of the Gulf states that BP calls the "Little People." To the children whose beaches are closed. To all the beachcombers and vacationers who have ever called this place home. This song is for you.




Sing it loud and often in BP's honor!


BP's Wide, Wide River


Like a river of shit

Like a river of shit

Flow on, flow on, BP's spilling that shit

Right from my toes

On up to my nose

Flow on, flow on, like a river of shit

I've been swimming

In BP's river of shit

More oil spilling

And I'm getting tired of it

Oil well's spewing

When will it run dry

Can't go on swimming

Cause I don't want to die

You can't fry that fish when it's dead in poison water

and you can't eat that shrimp when it's boiled in bubbling crude

and you can't walk that beach with tarballs on your feet

and you can't swim that surf when the water's thick as blood

and the birds are drowning in a sea of oily mud

Our oil slick deadline is flowing closer every day

grows and grows and grows

And no one has a clue how to make it stop!

Oil of sorrow

Is covering up the Gulf

Sliding down our throats

bringing amber waves of oil

And all our children's children's children's

Children's children children

Shall have to wade swim

In the grim gulf waters

In which we now all drown

Sing along with us

Sing sing sing sing sing sing sing sing!

Like a river of shit

Like a river of shit

Flow on, flow on, BP's spilling that shit

Right from my toes

On up to my nose

Flow on, flow on, like a river of shit

I've been swimming

In BP's river of shit

More oil spilling

And I'm getting tired of it

Oil well's spewing

When will it run dry

Can't go on swimming

Cause I don't want to die

Category:

News & Politics

Tags:

• BP
• Gulf Oil Spill
• Code Pink
• wildlife
• oilslick
• beaches
• Deepwater Horizon
• parody
• song
• environment
• disaster
• Gulf Coast
• fish

[Larkworthy]

Tuli Kupfenberg died today July 12, 200. His last activity on Youtube was liking my video. RIP Tuli.

[russvr]

Totally awesome performance and video! I pray that the CEO and inner circle of BP are made to live and set up housekeeping in a river of shit.

[Larkworthy]

@russvr I was kind of hoping they'd make it their corporate theme song! And maybe it will catch on and the Gulf clean-up workers will sing it as they work!

[tulifuli]

This would be funny if it weren't tragic.  Good use of a Fugs song.

[Larkworthy]

@tulifuli I am honored that you heard my version of your great song. And mortified at the same time by how appropriate it was to express my disgust for BP. Thank you so much for commenting on my video and for founding the greatest underground band of all time!! And for being part of Ginsberg's greatest poem "Howl" You are a living legend!

Tuli Kupferberg! I am dazzled! Sending you hugs and good vibes. Peace!

[PROFILESophiaYates]

Sing girl!!!!!

[Ganpignanus]

Nice job. I think I would have called it 'river of death'. I took part in a protest photo shoot yesterday and was covered in fake oil to prevent oil drilling in the country where I live. End the oil age now. Alternative clean fuels now.

[jackieevans]

joe bARTON? By next election we wont know who you are.

[muffinsz2]

I am so very glad to see this Lark!

[eshkaljka]

thanks for posting