The Plutonium Song

Plutonium is a business,

The business people say.

A cupful of Plutonium

Could sweep the world away.

But atom plants are business

With Plutonium on the side,

And business will keep going

Although all the world has died.

Chorus:

Make way for business,

They go where they will go.

If business wants Plutonium,

Who's going to say them no.

The AEC announces

A Pluto-economy,

Plutonium on railroad cars

And on the ships at sea.

Railroad cars they jump the tracks

And freighters they collide,

And business will keep going

Although all the world has died.

(Chorus)

There never was Plutonium

Since all the world began,

But now it's a by-product

Of the cleverness of Man.

Half-life twenty thousand years

And there's no place to hide,

And business will keep going

Although all the world has died.

(Chorus)

A whiff of that Plutonium

No city can survive,

But P.R. men can make it smell

Like Chanel Number Five.

I sing this song to warn us all

While we still move around,

Cause business goes the way it goes

Unless we cut them down.

Last Chorus:

Somebody's got to stop them,

Children, that's me and you.

And if some of us go down fighting,

If some of us go down fighting,

If some of us go down fighting,

That's a cleaner way to go.