On April twentieth there was a little crack
In a Halliburton Oil Rig that was not built in Iraq
It killed eleven people and injured many more
And we blame the bloody British for the oil upon our shore

They used robots and the gusher kept a comin'
A lot more oil than there was a while ago
They tried six times and it just kept a-runnin'
Toward the ruination of the Gulf of Mexico

When we looked at the video we seed the gusher blow
A gallon every second or perhaps a little mo’
It went to the surface and floated toward the beach
We sat there in our swimmin’ trunks, the oil within our reach

They used “Top Hat” and the gusher kept a comin'
A lot more oil than there was a while ago
They tried six times and it just kept a-runnin'
Toward the ruination of the Gulf of Mexico

Old Hayward said that it wasn’t his mistake
That Halliburton told ‘em it was stronger than a quake
It chaps my hide when the greedy bastards play
With our beaches and our marshes, and our wildlife in this way

They used “Top Kill” and the gusher kept a comin'
A lot more oil than there was a while ago
They tried six times and it just kept a-runnin'
Toward the ruination of the Gulf of Mexico

Well they blamed Halliburton and they blamed Transocean
And they blamed Barack Obama (well, for everything, you know)
They blamed some voodoo man who might’a mixed a potion
For the ruination of the Gulf of Mexico

It’s hard to laugh when the ocean’s full-a goo
Because these evil scumbags treat our water like a loo
If water’s unimportant and their love of oil is first
Give ‘em all the oil they want to have and let ‘em die of thirst

All that talk and the gusher kept a comin'
A lot more oil than there was a while ago
They tried a buncha times and it just kept a-runnin'
Toward the ruination of the Gulf of Mexico

Well they blamed Halliburton and they blamed Transocean
And they blamed Barack Obama (well, for everything, you know)
They blamed some voodoo man who might’a mixed a potion
For the ruination of the Gulf of Mexico