Take It Away

We've got to take over P. G. E.,

It's become a dreadful pest.

It's spreading atomic poison stuff

Over all the Golden West.

They're starting a plant at Bodega,

A place that was wild and pure,

They call it an atomic park,

But it's an atomic sewer.

TAKE IT AWAY, TAKE IT AWAY,

There's a killer gang at the very top

Of P. G. and E. today.

We need that electric power

To make our country run,

But what's the use of electric juice

When the people all are gone.

All around Eureka town

Dosimeters are set,

To see, when the plant gets running,

What kind of a dose we'll get.

The primary school is across the road

From where the smoke will roll,

And there's two little dosimeters

On the schoolhouse electric pole.

They have public relations men

Could fascinate the birds,

They even hypnotize themselves

With their own delightful words.

There'll never be an accident

To set the state in flames,

They never speak of an accident,

"Excursion" is the name.

P. G. and E. buys lots of stuff

And local business booms;

They also buy officials

In those jolly smoke-filled rooms.

The A. E. C., the P. U. C.,

The county board and all,

They shake a leg and sit up and beg

At Gas and Electric's call.

There's a rock fault at Bodega

Where many a quake has been,

And that's the very site they choose,

To put their reactors in.

There used to be an iron rule

For a plant of stone and steel,

But now they've got a quickie job

You could stave in with your heel.

It's time we kicked these bandits out

And took their toys away.

Lord knows it's we that foot the bills

With the taxes that we pay.

The subsidies pay half the cost,

Our gas bills pay the rest,

And we need our own great power plant

To save the Golden West.

Take it away, take it away,

From the killer gang at the very top

Of P. G. and E. today.

We need electric power

To make our country run,

And we'll produce that electric juice

In a company of our own.