ORANGE BEACH, Ala. -If you have ever seen one Jack Robertson’s weekend shows at the Flora-Bama, you know he is one funny man.

You won’t hear most of his songs on the radio because, well, the radio just plain won’t play most of them. Howard Stern likes ‘em. So does radio personality Red Peters.

To call most of his creations “bawdy” would be putting it mildly.

With that in mind, the veteran night-time Gulf Coast entertainer and daytime medical instructor took a run at the recent BP fiasco that soils the beaches of Baldwin County on a regular basis.

“You heard my oil spill song?” he asked the other day over a cup of coffee at the Foley Coffee Shop.

“I wanted to write something funny about it, but I can’t see anything funny about that (expletive).”

“He sold fishing trips and tackle at his marina on the bay, But the bank took it back and they locked him out today.”

“Oil around the Dock” isn’t hardly your typical Jack, or as he’s sometimes known, Big Earl, fare. He usually sings about mother-in-laws, snow birders driving slow in the left lane, farm animals and enjoying time on his pontoon boat.

“I sat down to write a funny song,’’ Jack said Wednesday. “Lots of folks said ‘Jack, I know you got a BP song’ and I actually wrote one that was funny.”

He hasn’t performed the ‘funny’ BP song at his shows.

“But I got to thinking,” he said, “and there ain’t nothing funny about it. People say, ‘We didn’t know you wrote any serious songs.’ I’m damn serious about this.”

“Everything we've worked for is under chain and lock”

There was a bit of pain in Jack’s normally happy eyes as he recounted meeting people who come to his shows.

“I wrote it from my point of view from talking to people while I am on break,” he said. “They are losing their businesses, boats. I talked to one guy who just spent $200,000 to upgrade his parasail business and it went from being booked solid to zero in a matter of days.”

But it’s hard to suppress his incisive humor for long.

“I’m not worried,” he said. “I make hundreds of dollars a year.”

What he is worried about are those around him facing disaster. He’d like to think in some way the song could generate money to help those hit hardest by the oil spill.

“I would like to put it on iTunes where people could download it and the money could go to help families down here,’’ he said. “I don’t want to make money. I’m used to being broke.”

“He thought help would come, enough to make ends meet, He said ‘I guess they ran out of money, after bailing out Wall street.’”

His ire was raised when one person suggested he file a claim with BP because he can’t enjoy his condo and boat on the back bays like he has for years.

“Take care of those people that got real claims,” he said. “People that lost their jobs. What (irks) me is people who live out of town who bring a boat down here, can’t use it now and want to make a claim.

“People are losing their jobs. I just shake my head and ask ‘how can this happen?’ ”

“Well he sacrificed most all his life for his wife and kids Ran his business seven days a week, working hard is what he did.”

Thursday night at Tipseas, Jack teamed with another local entertainers, Rhonda Hart and Elaine Petty, to raise money for “a family affected by the oil spill and one who is no longer with us.” The night included an auction of a two pairs of tickets to the July 11 Jimmy Buffett show in Gulf Shores and a total of $1,738 was raised through tips and musicians donations.

“What can you do?” he said. “I’ve never been political until this year and I went to a Tea Party rally. I have a hard time believing it.”

“I've been through hurricanes, man I've seen it all, You just work a little harder when your back’s against the wall.”

He fears the beach community he has known for years won’t the be same when all this is over and he’s heard reports saying next year the beaches will return to normal,

“You will not see a lot of the same business owners,” he said. “They were counting on this summer to pull everything together and they’ll have to sell for pennies on the dollar. Good community businesses. In that way, the beach will not be the same.”

Tonight will pretty much be the same for Jack. He still packs the house at the Flora-Bama.

And he’ll be there tonight, probably singing “Oil on the Dock” and many of his more lighthearted offerings.

“I’ve had the most fun in my life playing right down there at the Bama singing about stuff people shouldn’t sing about,’’ he said.

And bringing a little laughter and a small repose from a disastrous summer on the Gulf Coast.