Talking Atom (Old Man Atom)

I'm gonna preach you a sermon 'bout Old Man Atom,

Now I don't mean the Adam in the Bible datum.

No, I don't mean the Adam that Mother Eve mated,

I mean that thing that science liberated.

You know Einstein said he was scared,

And what he's scared of, boy, I'm scared.

You know life used to be such a simple joy

The cyclotron was just a super toy

Folks got born, they'd work and marry

And "atom" was a word in the dictionary

Then it happened

These 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, right and left,

While the diplomats was splittin' hairs . . .

'cause cartel crowd put on a show

They gonna turn back the clock on the UNO,

grab a corner on atoms and maybe extinguish

every damned atom that can't speak English.

Down with foreign-born atoms!

America for American atoms

Step right up folks, let's atomize world peace.

But the atom's international, in spite of hysteria,

Flourishes in Utah, also Siberia.

The atoms don't care about politics

or who got what in whichever fix

All he wants to do is to sit around and have his nucleus bombarded by neutrons

Yes it's up to the people

'cause the atom don't care

You can't fence these many just like air

Whether you'are black, white, red or brown

The question is this, when you boil it down:

To be or not to be!

That is the question. . .

Yes and the answer to it all ain't military datum

Like "Who get their fustest with the mostest atoms"

But the people of the world must decide their fate,

We got to stick together or disintegrate.

We hold these truths to be self-evident:

All men could be cremated equal.