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I'm gonna preach you a sermon 'bout Old Man Atom, |
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Now I don't mean the Adam in the Bible datum. |
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No, I don't mean the Adam that Mother Eve mated, |
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I mean that thing that science liberated. |
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You know Einstein said he was scared, |
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And what he's scared of, boy, I'm scared. |
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You know life used to be such a simple joy |
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The cyclotron was just a super toy |
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Folks got born, they'd work and marry |
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And "atom" was a word in the dictionary |
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Then it happened |
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These science guys, from every clime, |
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They all pitched in with overtime. |
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Before they knew it, the job was done; |
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They'd hitched up the power of the gosh-darn sun, |
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They put a harness on old Sol, |
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Splittin' atoms, right and left, |
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While the diplomats was splittin' hairs . . . |
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'cause cartel crowd put on a show |
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They gonna turn back the clock on the UNO, |
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grab a corner on atoms and maybe extinguish |
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every damned atom that can't speak English. |
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Down with foreign-born atoms! |
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America for American atoms |
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Step right up folks, let's atomize world peace. |
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But the atom's international, in spite of hysteria, |
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Flourishes in Utah, also Siberia. |
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The atoms don't care about politics |
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or who got what in whichever fix |
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All he wants to do is to sit around and have his nucleus bombarded by neutrons |
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Yes it's up to the people |
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'cause the atom don't care |
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You can't fence these many just like air |
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Whether you'are black, white, red or brown |
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The question is this, when you boil it down: |
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To be or not to be! |
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That is the question. . . |
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Yes and the answer to it all ain't military datum |
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Like "Who get their fustest with the mostest atoms" |
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But the people of the world must decide their fate, |
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We got to stick together or disintegrate. |
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We hold these truths to be self-evident: |
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All men could be cremated equal. |
