[00:14.590] I'm gonna preach you a sermon 'bout Old Man Atom,
[00:17.128] Now I don't mean the Adam in the Bible datum.
[00:19.900] No, I don't mean the Adam that Mother Eve mated,
[00:22.333] I mean that thing that science liberated.
[00:25.688] You know Einstein said he was scared,
[00:28.947] And what he's scared of, boy, I'm scared.
[00:32.845] You know life used to be such a simple joy
[00:35.270] The cyclotron was just a super toy
[00:37.506] Folks got born, they'd work and marry
[00:39.629] And "atom" was a word in the dictionary
[00:41.693] Then it happened
[00:43.749] These science guys, from every clime,
[00:46.188] They all pitched in with overtime.
[00:48.237] Before they knew it, the job was done;
[00:50.118] They'd hitched up the power of the gosh-darn sun,
[00:52.408] They put a harness on old Sol,
[00:55.466] Splittin' atoms, right and left,
[00:58.910] While the diplomats was splittin' hairs . . .
[01:02.430] 'cause cartel crowd put on a show
[01:04.769] They gonna turn back the clock on the UNO,
[01:07.360] grab a corner on atoms and maybe extinguish
[01:09.831] every damned atom that can't speak English.
[01:12.096] Down with foreign-born atoms!
[01:15.426] America for American atoms
[01:18.632] Step right up folks, let's atomize world peace.
[01:24.874] But the atom's international, in spite of hysteria,
[01:28.277] Flourishes in Utah, also Siberia.
[01:31.984] The atoms don't care about politics
[01:34.064] or who got what in whichever fix
[01:37.294] All he wants to do is to sit around and have his nucleus bombarded by neutrons
[01:46.814] Yes it's up to the people
[01:47.932] 'cause the atom don't care
[01:49.252] You can't fence these many just like air
[01:51.597] Whether you'are black, white, red or brown
[01:53.773] The question is this, when you boil it down:
[01:56.039] To be or not to be!
[01:59.054] That is the question. . .
[02:01.561] Yes and the answer to it all ain't military datum
[02:04.166] Like "Who get their fustest with the mostest atoms"
[02:07.533] But the people of the world must decide their fate,
[02:09.713] We got to stick together or disintegrate.
[02:13.987] We hold these truths to be self-evident:
[02:17.529] All men could be cremated equal.