[ti:Old Man Atom]
[ar:Sons of The Pioneers/Tom Glazer]
[al:Protest Songs Of America]
[by:]
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[00:00.00]Old Man Atom - Sons of The Pioneers
[00:04.29]Written by：Martin.C
[00:08.58]Hiroshima nagasaki
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[00:13.22]Alamogordo bikini
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[00:17.94]I'm gonna preach you all a sermon
[00:19.47]About old man atom that's me
[00:21.12]
[00:22.35]I don't mean the adam in the bible datum
[00:24.74]I don't mean the adam that mother eve elated
[00:26.93]I mean that thing that science liberated
[00:29.06]
[00:30.33]The thing that einstein says he's scared of
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[00:33.80]And when einstein's scared
[00:35.24]Brother you'd better be scared
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[00:38.05]If you're scared of the atom
[00:39.52]Here's what's you gotta do
[00:40.66]You gotta gather all the people
[00:42.28]In the world with you
[00:43.28]'Cause if you don't get together and do it
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[00:45.69]Well first thing you know
[00:47.11]I'm gonna blow this world plum too
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[00:49.79]Hiroshima nagasaki
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[00:54.01]Alamogordo bikini
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[00:58.87]Now life used to be such a simple joy
[01:01.26]My cyclotron was just a super toy
[01:03.55]And folks got born they'd work and marry
[01:05.99]And atom was a word in the dictionary
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[01:08.53]And then it happened
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[01:11.10]The science boys from every clime
[01:13.22]They all pitched in with overtime
[01:15.08]And before they knew it
[01:16.45]The thing was done
[01:17.63]And they'd hitched up the power of the golden sun
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[01:20.99]And put a harness on old sol
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[01:23.74]Splittin' atoms
[01:24.74]While the diplomats was splittin' hairs
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[01:28.07]Hiroshima nagasaki
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[01:32.46]Alamogordo bikini
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[01:37.19]But the atom's here in spite of hysteria
[01:39.90]Flourishes in utah as well as Siberia
[01:42.41]And whether you're a black white red or brown
[01:44.64]The question is this when you boil it down
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[01:47.87]To be or not to be that's the question
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[01:52.84]The answer to it all ain't military datum
[01:55.18]Like who gets there firstest with the mostest atoms
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[01:58.05]No the people of the world must decide their fate
[02:00.86]They gotta get together or disintegrate
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[02:04.72]I hold this truth to be self evident
[02:07.10]That all men may be cremated equal
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[02:10.62]Hiroshima nagasaki
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[02:14.96]Alamogordo bikini
[02:19.78]Yes it's up to the people
[02:21.17]'Cause the atoms don't care
[02:22.55]You can't fence me in I'm just like air
[02:25.07]I don't give a hoot about any politics
[02:27.41]Or who got what into whichever fix
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[02:30.55]All I want to do is sit around
[02:32.45]And have my nucleus bombarded by neutrons
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[02:36.40]Now the moral is this just as plain as day
[02:39.15]That old man atom is here to stay
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[02:41.63]I'm gonna stick around and that's for true
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[02:44.39]But ah my dearly beloved are you
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[02:48.95]So listen folks here is my thesis
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[02:51.98]Peace in the world or the world in pieces
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[02:56.03]Hiroshima nagasaki
[03:00.31]Alamogordo bikini