Lyrics:

Well, I'm gonna preach you all a sermon 'bout Old Man Atom,
I don't mean the Adam in the Bible datum
I don't mean the Adam that Mother Eve mated,
I mean that thing that science liberated
The thing that Einstein says he's scared of,
And when Einstein's scared, brother, I'm scared

Well if you're scared of the A-bomb, here's what you gotta do
You got to gather all the people in the world with you
'Cause if we don't get together and do it
Well, the first thing you'll know we'll blow this world plum to...

Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Alamogordo, Bikini...

Now life used to be such a simple joy
The cyclotron was just a super toy
And folks got born, they'd work and marry
And atom was a word in the dictionary
And then it happened

And the science boys, from every clime,
They all pitched in with overtime.
Before they knew it, the job was done;
They'd hitched up the power of the goll-durn sun,
They put a harness on Old Sol,
Splittin' atoms, while the diplomats was a splittin' hairs . . .

Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Alamogordo, Bikini...

But the atom's international, in spite of hysteria,
Flourishes in Utah, and in Siberia.
And whether you're white, black, red or brown,
The question is this, when you boil it down:
To be or not to be!
That's the question

And the answer to it all ain't military datum,
Like "Who gets there fustest with the mostest atoms,"
No the people of the world must decide their fate,
We got to stick together or disintegrate.
We hold this truth to be self-evident,
That all men may be cremated equal

Hiroshima, Nagasaki -- Lord they both went up the blue
Alamogordo, Bikini -- It could happen to you

Yes, it's up to the people, cause the atom don't care,
You can't fence him in, he's just like air.
And he doesn't give a hoot about any politics
Or who got what into whichever fix --
All he wants to do is just sorta set around and have his nucleus bombarded
by neutrons.

So the moral's this, just as plain as day,
That Old Man Atom is here to stay.
He's gonna stick around, it's clear to see,
But, ah, my dearly beloved, are we?

So listen folks, here's my thesis:
"Peace in the world, or the world in pieces!"

Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Alamogordo, Bikini...