Diesel Smoke-Sons of The Pioneers

[ti:Diesel Smoke] [ar:The Sons Of The Pioneers] [al:The Sons Of The Pioneers Selected Favorites Volume 2] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Diesel Smoke - Sons of The Pioneers [00:08.62]Hiroshima nagasaki [00:13.27]Alamogordo bikini [00:18.14]I'm gonna preach you all a sermon [00:19.45]About old man atom that's me [00:21.52] [00:22.53]I don't mean the adam in the bible datum [00:24.90]I don't mean the adam that mother eve elated [00:27.24]I mean that thing that science liberated [00:29.55] [00:30.39]The thing that einstein says he's scared of [00:32.89] [00:33.82]And when einstein's scared [00:35.45]Brother you'd better be scared [00:37.08] [00:38.17]If you're scared of the atom [00:39.68]Here's what's you gotta do [00:40.78]You gotta gather all the people [00:42.30]In the world with you [00:43.44]'Cause if you don't get together and do it [00:45.09] [00:45.96]Well first thing you know [00:47.05]I'm gonna blow this world plum too [00:49.04] [00:49.72]Hiroshima nagasaki [00:53.23] [00:54.08]Alamogordo bikini [00:59.15]Now life used to be such a simple joy [01:01.32]My cyclotron was just a super toy [01:03.60]And folks got born they'd work and marry [01:05.97]And atom was a word in the dictionary [01:08.68]And then it happened [01:09.69] [01:11.09]The science boys from every clime [01:13.08]They all pitched in with overtime [01:15.31]And before they knew it [01:16.64]The thing was done [01:17.75]And they'd hitched up the power of the golden sun [01:20.96]And put a harness on old sol [01:22.96] [01:23.78]Splittin' atoms [01:24.81]While the diplomats was splittin' hairs [01:26.79] [01:28.12]Hiroshima nagasaki [01:32.57]Alamogordo bikini [01:37.59]But the atom's here in spite of hysteria [01:39.68]Flourishes in utah as well as Siberia [01:42.63]And whether you're a black white red or brown [01:44.91]The question is this when you boil it down [01:46.81] [01:47.92]To be or not to be that's the question [01:51.01] [01:52.72]The answer to it all ain't military datum [01:55.29]Like who gets there firstest with the mostest atoms [01:58.16]No the people of the world must decide their fate [02:00.84]They gotta get together or disintegrate [02:02.97] [02:04.76]I hold this truth to be self evident [02:07.17]That all men may be cremated equal [02:09.91] [02:10.63]Hiroshima nagasaki [02:14.59] [02:15.18]Alamogordo bikini [02:19.98]Yes it's up to the people [02:21.37]'Cause the atoms don't care [02:22.62]You can't fence me in I'm just like air [02:24.91]I don't give a hoot about any politics [02:27.36]Or who got what into whichever fix [02:29.78] [02:30.58]All I want to do is sit around [02:32.52]And have my nucleus bombarded by neutrons [02:35.06] [02:36.62]Now the moral is this just as plain as day [02:39.32]That old man atom is here to stay [02:41.00] [02:41.60]I'm gonna stick around and that's for true [02:44.32]But ah my dearly beloved are you [02:48.15] [02:48.85]So listen folks here is my thesis [02:51.32] [02:51.96]Peace in the world or the world in pieces [02:55.31] [02:56.08]Hiroshima nagasaki [02:59.67] [03:00.50]Alamogordo bikini