When I came to the Prince William Sound   The Glaciers were friends to me   Not one of them said I had to be home   or I couldn't have a drink   Sometime late in '63   Appetites finally grew near   How to get kicked off a pipeline crew   Get too drunk to feel fear      Winter was coming anyway seeming to last an age   Lived off of my severance pay from the old pipeline days   Did just fine out in the snow -- Jack was just a little help   You think six months of darkness easy, you just try it yourself      Woke up in time that early spring   To turn on the evening news   Could only sit dumb as Cronkite said   "Look what's gonna happen to you"   I was drunk when the shock wave hit   Said goodbye to Valdez   Nothing much there anyway   just the pipeline and me      Earth shook earth shook   Never meant nothing to me   Never meant anything