Well they shot the chief up down in Muggah’s Creek He was the last of his kind alive And they started laying tracks with a steel-bladed axe The wheels of industry had arrived
And the people started coming from miles around To add to the fire that burned in this town And they were treated like dirt & their muscles they hurt But they still kept coming back somehow
And there were lots of old women but no old men So the boys worked harder to pay the rent But before too long those boys were gone And it started all over again
700,000 tons of toxic sludge Buried in our hearts & minds But my soapbox faces the ocean And the wind takes away my pleading cries
I saw the beefcake grey-suits on TV With a million different image: http://static.urx.io/units/web/urx-unit-loader.gif
chicken-shit alibis And I never saw the soil sparkle quite so bright Underneath the smoky red skies
Old Charlie saw the face of the lord in the smoke Lord said everything’s going to be just fine But Charlie never got to pass on the good news Because he died in the smoke that night
They sang their swan song down in the Love Canal It was a shame they never could quite hide Some people talk about a brighter future Around here people just die
I saw the last stack come down over Muggah’s Creek And the Boss-men got away in the night And the Widows were left to clean up the mess And get on with the rest of their lives Read more at http://www.songlyrics.com/tom-fun-orchestra/tar-pond-tango-lyrics/#2xAj2fJ3zPKVVVwP.99