Sheryl Crow - "Gasoline" (Live, 2007) with lyrics

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The Colosseum at Caesars Palace
Las Vegas, Nevada (USA)
November 15, 2007

Lyrics:

Gasoline

(Lyrics: Sheryl Crow - Music: Sheryl Crow, Jeff Trott, Bill Bottrell)

Way back in the year of 2017
The sun was growing hotter
And oil was way beyond its peak
When crazy Hector Johnson broke into a refinery
And the black gold started flowing
Just like Boston tea

It was the summer of the riots
And London sat in sweltering heat
And the gangs of Mini Coopers
Took the battle to the streets
But when the creed was handed down
For no more trucks and no more cars
They threw cans of petrol through the windows at Scotland Yard

Gasoline
Will be free, will be free
Gasoline
Will be free, will be free

When the Mounties stormed the palace of the Saudi family
They held them up for ransom
Without disturbing their high tea
But their getaway was shaky
They stalled in the Riyadh streets
Cause you can't make it very far
When your tank is on empty

The final can of gasoline was loaded on a truck
And driven through the streets of Agra to the palace aquaduct
You see, all the majesty of worship that once adorned these fatal halls
Was just a target to the angry
As they blew up the Taj Mahal

Gasoline
Will be free, will be free
Gasoline
will be free, will be free

Gary ran a market way down in Tennessee
Where all the farmers got together and talked about this great country
But when the government turned its back on farming
Man, what I hear
They dragged the pumps out of the ground
With a big vintage John Deere

I've got soldiers on my payroll
Standing guard on my front drive
Snipers on the roof poised at those
Who don't want me alive
Cause they audited my taxes
My family under threat
Cause I've got a message and a megaphone
And I'll scream it to the death

Gasoline
Will be free, will be free
Gasoline
Will be free, will be free

You got the farms in Argentina
Making fuel from sugar cane
You got the bastards in Washington
Afraid of popping the greed vain
Cause the money's in the pipeline
And pipeline's running dry
And we'll be the last to recognize
Where there's shit there's always flies

Channel: Music
Uploaded: November 21, 2007 at 4:10 pm
Author: crowarchive

Length: 00:05:09
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Video Comments:
bostonbrat2 (September 19, 2008 at 2:25 pm)
Thanks, crowarchive! This is simple Nile Rodgers-like Funk/R&B music, with Crow-political lyrics. Hey, can't a White Girl get funky? OK, I hope she does not try too much to be funky, or rap; this is enough. The worst part of this video; listening to Ellen De *Generates* voice!
lupirous (September 7, 2008 at 2:59 pm)
linda
drachirzim (August 25, 2008 at 4:30 pm)
Sounds like Frey's Smuglers Blues.
drachirzim (August 25, 2008 at 4:29 pm)
Is she doing a Dylan imitation?
usamericanz (August 23, 2008 at 12:50 am)
the song itself is horrible, but i agree with Sheryl's lyrics - we must drill, drill here, drill NOW. If we increase the supply of oil, snipers on the roof will not be necessary.
ExxonExxoff (August 2, 2008 at 8:00 pm)
You go girl! GREEDY BIG OIL PIGS!
schapman5 (July 15, 2008 at 3:42 am)
A really good song and as Charlie Watts once said "she looks good too".
antoniar97 (July 12, 2008 at 7:16 pm)
She didn't sing the high part in the chorus :( oh well still good
AVTOHA (June 8, 2008 at 6:23 am)
ВСЕ ПО КАИФУ
queenfruitypants (May 22, 2008 at 9:34 pm)
it's so reto