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Intro: D Em D Em
D Em D Em
Royal Oil, come on bubble and boil (stabs like dagger) make you stagger on the hot tin foil
D Em
Mind your mind or it will surely spoil
G - D/F# - Em G - D/F# - A
Then you sleep down in the soil, nothing comes from nothing, come on, Royal Oil
D Em D Em
When you smoke or poke the poison, you lose the chance to be tomorrow
D Em D Em
Look out on the horizon and see the sadness, the pain, and the sorrow
G - D/F# - Em G - D/F# - Em
I can't say enough about the stuff, or what it has in store
G - D/F# - Em G - D/F#-A
When you smoke or poke the poison, you won't be anymore
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D Em D Em
Royal Oil, come on bubble and boil (stabs like dagger) make you stagger on the hot tin foil
D Em
Mind your mind or it will surely spoil
G - D/F# - Em G - D/F# - A
Then you sleep down in the soil, nothing comes from nothing, come on, Royal Oil
D Em D Em
Royal Oil has cut many down to size, spikes gonna strike the weak and strong alike
D Em
And then forever, and ever close those eyes,
G - D/F# - Em G - D/F# - A
Make up your mind to keep your mind up, and to your life be loyal,
G - D/F# - A
Nothing comes from nothing, come on, Royal Oil
Solo: ( D Em ) x4
G - D/F# Em G - D/F# - A
Make up your mind, keep up your up, and to your life you've got to be loyal
D Em D Em
Royal Oil, come on bubble and boil (big trouble brewing) make you stagger on the hot tin foil
D Em
Mind your mind or it will surely spoil
G - D/F# - Em G - D/F# - A
Then you sleep down in the soil, nothing comes from nothing, come on, Royal Oil
G - D/F# - Em G - D/F# - Em
Sleep down in the soil, you're gonna sleep down in the soil
G - D/F# - Em G - D/F# - Em D
And then you sleep down in the soil, nothing comes from nothing, come on, Royal Oil
