Verse
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It was in the 1970’s, the fuel crisis had begun
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The choices were presented to us as if we had none
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Leaders of industry said they could solve the problem
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By mastering the power of the radioactive atom
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Some folks in western Jutland got a notion in their heads
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They thought there might be something they could offer up instead
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D few hundred people gathered in a little place called Tvind
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And declared their will to harness the power of the wind
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We’re gonna build the biggest windmill in the world
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We’re gonna build the biggest windmill in the world
[Verse 2]
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There were many who said their science wasn’t sound
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That such a mighty windmill would simply topple to the ground
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Some of them were scientists, the vast majority were not
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But they knew with years of effort you could do a lot
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Word about the project spread far and wide
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D hundred thousand visitors came to help and to advise
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Until one day these windmill builders drove in with a crane
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And lifted up their giant wings with a mighty chain
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We’re gonna build the biggest windmill in the world
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We’re gonna build the biggest windmill in the world
[Verse 3]
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When Tvindkraft was completed it reached up to the sky
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Its wings churned in the air at 54 meters high
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The critics all fell silent, no one now was jeering
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As even industry agreed this was some damn fine engineering
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The wind regaled Jutland from the north Atlantic sea
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As it was seamlessly converted into electricity
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It was power for the people, leukemia for none
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When they declared in Denmark just south of the midnight sun
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We’re gonna build the biggest windmill in the world
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We’re gonna build the biggest windmill in the world
[Verse 4]
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They gave away the patents, they said knowledge should be free
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And their plans were copied by a new-born industry
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Soon Denmark would be known as the windmill-building nation
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And it all started with some hippies at the Tvindkraft power station
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Debates were held in parliament about which way things should go
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Build a nuclear reactor, the majority said no
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It could have gone quite differently — in much of the world it did
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Except for those in Ulfborg who said we’re getting off the grid
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We’re gonna build the biggest windmill in the world
F G Am
We’re gonna build the biggest windmill in the world
- 1. Chord Gitar David Rovics - The Biggest Windmill Kunci Dasar - Chords.id (Nada Dasar G)
- 2. Ganti Chord Gitar David Rovics - The Biggest Windmill Kunci Dasar - Chords.id (Nada Dasar G)
- 3. Author Lagu Andra Ramadhan