Pete Seeger - Talking Atom lyrics
[Pete Seeger - Talking Atom lyrics]
Sermon 'bout Old Man Atom
I don't mean the Adam in the Bible datum
I don't mean the Adam that Mother Eve mated
I mean that thing that science liberated
Einstein says he's scared
And when Einstein's scared, I'm scared
Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Alamogordo, Bikini
Here's my moral, plain as day
Old Man Atom is here to stay
He's gonna hang around, it's plain to see
But, ah, my dearly beloved, are we?
We hold these truths to be self-evident
All men may be cremated equal
Hiroshima, Nagasaki - here's my text
Hiroshima, Nagasaki - Lordy, who'll be next
The science guys, from every clime
They all pitched in with overtime
Before they knew it, the job was done
They'd hitched up the power of
The gosh darn sun
They put a harness on Old Sol
Splittin' atoms
While the diplomats was splittin' hairs
Hiroshima, Nagasaki - what'll we do?
Hiroshima, Nagasaki - they both
Went up the blue
Then the cartel crowd put on a show
To turn back the clock on the UNO
To get a corner on atoms and maybe extinguish
Every darned atom that can't speak English
Down with foreign-born atoms! Yes, Sir!
Hiroshima, Nagasaki
But the atom's international
In spite of hysteria
Flourishes in Utah, also Siberia
And whether you're white, black
Red or brown
The question is this, when you boil it down:
To be or not to be! That is the question
Atoms to atoms, and dust to dust
If the world makes A-bombs
Something's bound to bust
Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Alamogordo, Bikini
No, the answer to it all isn't milit
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