They’re rioting in Africa,
They’re starving in Spain.
There’s hurricanes in Florida,
And Texas needs rain.
The whole World is sweltering with hate and mistrust.
And I don’t like anybody very much.
But we can be thankful and tranquil and proud,
we have not been hit by that mushroom-shaped cloud.
But all of us know that one lucky day,
Someone will set the spark off,
And we’ll all be blown away.
Editor’s note – This was a popular song in the Connecticut Boy Scout camp Tokowam in the summer of 1965.It sounds funnier when you sing it by a campfire and you are too young to grasp the true meaning. Lucky for us the World has learned from its mistakes and the threat of nuclear war anywhere in Earth is long gone.
