Oh Billy One-Handed

Am Am Am Am C G Am One-Handed Billy will tell you the tale C G D Em Of the data we sought that was deadlier than a whale Am C G Am We set off to sea and we brought dynamite Em G C Am To shoot seismic lines all into the night Am Am Am Am C G Am We ran lines all day as the echoes they came C G D Em All through the hull you could hear the refrain Am C G Am We blasted the sea into kingdom come Em G C Am For data we sailed every day in the sun Am Am Am F C Hey ho let the dynamite go G Am We won’t go home ’till the last one’s thrown F C Be sure to release, then tighten your cheeks G C Am The seismic recorder will chart all the peaks Am Am Am Am C G Am With hydrophones streaming kilometers behind C G D Em And Cores from below showing spreading in kind Am C G Am We pummeled Earth’s crust up the mid-ocean rise Em G C Am Tectonic drift proof was Marie Tharp’s surprise Am Am Am Am C G Am After six weeks off shore, every day the same din C G D Em We drowned out the sound with beer and with gin Am C G Am ‘Till stores were near empty but still we sailed on Em G C Am The dynamite singing low frequency songs Am Am Am F C Hey ho let the dynamite go G Am We won’t go home ’till the last one’s thrown F C Be sure to release, then tighten your cheeks G C Am The seismic recorder will chart all the peaks Am Am Am Am C G Am Regulations were scarce and daylight grew thin C G D Em Dynamite Billy quaffed his ration of gin Am C G Am At interval spacing he lobbed o’r the side Em G C Am One stick at a time on this foreboding line Am Am Am Am C G Am On the twenty-third shot of the ninth survey line C G D Em Billy’s interval spacing drifted in time Am C G Am Before his shipmates knew anything was wrong Em G C Am Billy held on that sparkler a moment too long Am Am Am Am F C Hey ho let the dynamite go G Am We won’t go home ’till the last one’s thrown F C Be sure to release, then tighten your cheeks G C Am The seismic recorder will chart all the peaks Am Am Am Verse 4/Outro Am C G Am See you young survey techs, now you know why C G D Em We compress all our air and our ships are all dry Am C G Am And ye who run airguns, please listen to me Em G C Am Things would be worse without OSHA safety