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  • [ Yawning ] ♪ ENERGY

  • SOMETIMES I THINK I'M RUNNIN' OUT OF

  • ENERGY

  • SEEMS LIKE WE USE AN AWFUL LOT FOR

  • HEATIN' AND LIGHTIN' AND DRIVIN' ♪

  • ♪♪ READIN' AND WRITIN' AND JIVIN' ♪

  • ENERGY

  • YOU'D THINK WE'D BE SA

  • YOU CAN GET IT BY DAMMIN' UP A RIVER

  • ♪ A WINDMILL CAN MAKE THE BREEZE DELIVER

  • BUT EVEN WITH MILLIN' AND DAMMIN' ♪

  • OUR NEEDS ARE SO MUCH MORE DEMANDIN' ♪

  • ♪♪ FOR ENERGY

  • WE HAVE TO USE SO

  • CHOP, CHOP, CHOP

  • OOD TO START THEIR FIRES

  • CHOP, CHOP, CHOP ♪♪

  • THEY MADE ALL THE TOOLS THAT THEY REQUIRED

  • CHOP, CHOP, CHOP

  • INVENTIONS GOT MORE AND MORE INSPIRED

  • THE FIRES GOT HIGHER AND HIGHER

  • AND CLEARINGS GOT WIDER AND WIDER ♪♪

  • ENERGY

  • THEY WERE BURNIN' 'BOUT ALL THEIR WOOD UP

  • THEN ONE DAY

  • MEN DISCOVERED THAT COAL WOULD DO IT BETTER

  • MINERS DUG

  • AND IT LOOKED LIKE IT MIGHT JUST LAST FOREVER ♪♪

  • IT SEEMED LIKE THE FINAL SOLUTION ♪♪

  • IT STARTED THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION

  • ENERGY

  • WE COULD JUST KEEP ON DIGGIN' IT UP

  • NOW IN 1859,

  • WAY OUT IN WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA, ILT A RIG...

  • THAT GOT SOME LAUGHS FROM FOLKS WHO CAME THERE.

  • BUT SUDDENLY, A MIGHTY ROAR CAME UP FROM UNDER THE GROUND.

  • AND SOON A GUSHER, GUSHING OIL, SOAKED ALL WHO STOOD AROUND.

  • NOW NO ONE KNEW WHEN THAT GUSHER BLEW...

  • THE PETROLEUM YEARS WERE ON US...

  • OR THAT SO MANY CARS AND TRUCKS WOULD COME TO CAUSE A CRISIS.

  • ♪♪ ENERGY

  • WE'RE LOOKIN' TO TRY AND FIND SOME NEW KINDS

  • ENERGY

  • ♪♪ EXPLORING TO TRY AND MAKE A NEW FIND

  • ♪♪ NUCLEAR AND THERMAL AND SOLAR

  • IF WE MISS WE'LL GET COLDER AND COLDER

  • ENERGY

  • WE'VE GOTTA STOP USIN' YOU UP

  • SO, DON'T BE CROSS WHEN MAMA SAYS

  • TURN THAT EXTRA LIGHT OUT

  • JUST TURN IT OFF

  • ♪ 'TIL WE FIND US A FUEL THAT NEVER RUNS OUT

  • ♪♪ IF EVERYONE TRIES A BIT HARDER

  • OUR FUEL WILL GO FARTHER AND FARTHER

  • WE'RE GONNA BE STRETCHIN' YOU

  • OUT ♪♪

[ Yawning ] ♪ ENERGY

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