Oil-ship crew makes most of Africa with 'Africa' music video

October 22, 2013 at 6:28PM
A worker on the Bourbon Peridot oil ship "play" a wrench xylophone in a music video for "Africa."
A worker on the Bourbon Peridot oil ship "plays" a wrench xylophone in a music video for "Africa." (Randy Salas — YouTube/The Minnesota Star Tribune)

Talk about having fun on the job.

(Randy Salas/The Minnesota Star Tribune)

The crew of the Bourbon Peridot, an oil ship stationed off the coast of West Africa, is lighting up the Internet with a fun music video in which they lip-synch to the '80s power ballad "Africa," by Toto.

The workers use the tools of their trade to create the fun video. That includes "playing" wrenches like xylophones, beating on liquid containers for drums and even a chef keeping tempo with knives on a fish. Clearly, the men are having fun, but it's their frequent awkwardness and the kitschiness of some scenes that has endeared the video to viewers.

"I don't know why I am not dating every man on this ship," says one YouTube commenter.

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