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NO CAUSE FOR ALARM
by Stanley H. Barkan
[intended to be sung as Pete Seeger would]
(Copyright © 1968, 2006)
I
Radioactivity is high over Italy
The dispatch from Rome
said yesterday.
But the situation isn’t dangerous,
That they all agree,
The situation give no cause for alarm.
REFRAIN
There is no cause for alarm.
There is no cause for alrm.
There’s no need to worry ‘bout a thing.
[EVERYBODY SING!]
There is no cause for alarm.
There is no cause for alarm.
There’s no need to worry ‘bout a thing.
II
Oh, Annan talked to Ahmadinejad
in Teheran City,
Discussed a non-proliferation treaty.
About Hizbullah and Hamas,
They had nothing to say,
And Iraq must wait for another day.
The situation gives no cause for alarm.
REFRAIN
III
Now everybody’s got an atom bomb.
Now how can there be any harm,
If everybody’s got an atom bomb?
They’ll all be afraid to throw one,
They know that’d be the end.
The situation give no cause for alarm.
FINAL REFRAIN
[in funeral tone]
[ENDING]
Boom!
[pratfall]